[osint] Londoners Grappling With Pervasive New Foes: Fear and Suspicion

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Londoners Grappling With Pervasive New Foes: Fear and Suspicion


By
 SARAH LYALL

New York Times

July 26, 2005





Michael Kamber for The New York Times


For some riders on the London subway, a good trip is one that ends
peacefully. Security alerts are common in the wake of terrorist attacks.

 

LONDON, July 25 - It's a new geography for a new London.

This city, which prides itself on its imperturbability, which managed to
hold itself together until last Friday, has slipped suddenly into a state of
nagging anxiety. It is no wonder that an editorial
 cartoon in The Sunday Telegraph depicted a redrawn London Underground
map with newly named stations: Panic and Fear leading to Doom; Dread and
Worry leading to Cold Sweat.

So strange is the mood, so convoluted are people's expectations, that even
the definition of a successful subway trip has changed. Now it is one in
which you are neither blown up nor shot. As Jason Fanti, 20, nervously
positioned near the door on an eastbound District Line subway train, put it
Monday, "You come out, and it's like, 'Thank God nothing happened.' " 

Fear follows passengers around the subways. A number of stations and the
entire Circle Line are still closed after the July 7 bombings, a fact
announced every few minutes by a disembodied voice on the public address
system. Huge posters visible everywhere depict the grainy photographs of
four suspects in the failed July 21 bombings, a reminder that four would-be
bombers are still at large.

In the two weeks since the July 7 attacks, there have been 250 security
alerts on the Underground, causing trains to stop, stations to be evacuated,
lines to be closed down and passengers to worry, always, that some new
terrible thing has happened.

Anxiety wafts around above ground, too. The sound of police sirens, fire
engines, ambulances, the odd helicopter overhead - all these raise the
tension. The ear attunes itself to listen for what's next. One emergency
vehicle whining past and fading away might be O.K.; five sirens, one right
after the other and stopping nearby, is not so good.

Radio call-in shows debate the pros and cons of shoot-to-kill policies on
the Underground. Visitors' bags are searched at movie houses, West End
theaters, museums and galleries. Officers with guns are patrolling the
streets. "It does feel different," Paul Sutton, 50, a credit controller,
said Monday. "I suppose we feel a bit unsafe."

Mr. Sutton had stopped in to Tavistock Square Gardens to sign a book of
condolence for the victims of the July 7 bombings. The garden is devoted to
peace. Its centerpiece is a statue of Gandhi. There is a monument honoring
conscientious objectors - "all those who have established and are
maintaining the right to refuse to kill," the inscription says.

On July 7, the No. 30 bus blew up as it passed the edge of the garden.
Fifteen people were killed, including the bomber. The blood that spattered
the British Medical Association headquarters opposite the garden has now
been cleaned up, and the body parts that were propelled into the trees have
long since been removed, by cherry-pickers, residents say. But people here
are still jittery.

Mr. Sutton never got to work on July 7. He got to the subway at 8:15 a.m.,
made it to Victoria Station, got on a train that broke down, was rerouted to
a bus, got off the bus when service was canceled, tried to go somewhere
else, walked for a while, and finally got home at 4:30 p.m.

Last Friday, his train was behind the one in which Jean Charles de Menezes,
a Brazilian electrician, was shot and killed by a police officer who mistook
him for a bomber. The train was stuck in the tunnel for perhaps an hour, he
said, while an elderly woman en route to a hospital for an operation
frantically paced up and down the car, telling everyone not to panic.

"The driver kept telling us he didn't know what was happening, but that an
ambulance had been called, and the police," he said. "The fact that he was
talking to us at all was very helpful."

Mr. Sutton said he felt mildly comforted by the fact that there were more
police officers around, even if they shot the wrong person. His father died
last Wednesday, and when he ran to catch the train, he was stopped by an
officer who asked him what he was doing. "Fair enough," he says now.

For people too spooked for the subway, there is always the bus. "But even
buses are strange now," said Antony Marko, 20, interviewed as he rode on the
top deck of the No. 2 in Stockwell. "The only reason I'm on the bus is, my
car broke down."

Scared of the bus? Buy a scooter. That was the solution for Gemma Osborn,
26, who commutes from Brixton to her job at a media company in Holborn. "I'd
rather get hit by a car than have my face blown up," she explained.

The 

[osint] Stricter Anti-Terror Laws Advance in Britain

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Stricter Anti-Terror Laws Advance in Britain


By
 SARAH LYALL

New York Times

July 26, 2005 

LONDON, July 26 - Britain moved closer today to introducing stricter
anti-terrorism laws when the three main political parties agreed in
principle on new legislation for Parliament to consider in the fall.

At his monthly news conference, Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the
opposition Tory and Liberal Democrat parties had come together with the
Labor Government for a "cross-party consensus" over the new plans. The three
parties have often been at odds over how far anti-terrorism legislation
should go, and that an agreement is emerging now reflects how much the mood
of the country, and of Parliament, has changed since the July 7 suicide
bombings in the subway and on a bus.

"When the main political parties present a united front, then it sends an
important signal to the terrorists of our strength and our determination and
our unity to defeat them," Mr. Blair said.

But there is concern that in the rush to get tough, the parties will go too
far.

"No political party wants to be seen as soft on terrorism," said Geoffrey
Robertson, one of Britain's top civil rights lawyers. "It's always the case
that the flame of civil liberties burns less brightly when surrounded by the
smoke from bombed buses and tube trains."

In general remarks about terrorism, the prime minister also condemned as
"complete nonsense" the argument that the Iraqi war was a justification, or
even a reason, for the bombings in London on July 7 and the attempted
bombings two weeks later.

"My point to you is this," he said. "It's time we stopped saying, O.K., we
abhor their methods but we kind of see something in their ideas or maybe
they've got a sliver of excuse or justification. They've got no
justification for it."

Mr. Blair also defended the shoot-to-kill policy for suspected terrorists
that resulted in the killing by the police on Friday of a 27-year-old
Brazilian electrician, mistakenly believed to be a suicide bomber.

"If you are dealing with someone who you think might be a suicide bomber,
then obviously the important thing is that they were not able to set off the
bomb," he said. "It's as simple as that, and I think it's more of a
common-sense response to the situation rather than any great change of
policy."

Mr. Blair met earlier today with Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy, the
leaders, respectively, of the Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties.
When they emerged, they said there had been agreement on several pieces of
proposed new legislation, including the creation of laws against the
preparation, incitement for or training of terrorism. A new law would give
the home secretary the power, too, to deport or refuse entry to people with
a record of inciting terrorism. The new laws are to be considered in the
fall, when Parliament returns from its summer recess, but are virtually
assured of passage because of the agreement between the leaders.

There remain other issues to be worked out, many of them from a wish-list of
tough new measures put forward by the police and security services. Perhaps
the most contentious of these is the proposal to increase the amount of time
that terrorism suspects can be detained by the authorities without being
charged of a crime. Currently, such suspects can be held for seven days, a
period that can be increased to 14 with special permission. The security
services would like to increase the time to three months.

"We see very considerable difficulties in that," Mr. Howard told reporters
after the meeting. "That is a long time to hold someone without charge, and
possibly just release them after that." He said he would wait to see the
government's proposals before deciding what position the party would take.

Another proposal, broadly supported by both the Conservatives and the
Liberal Democrats, would change the law to allow the use of intercepted
wiretap evidence in court. Currently, such evidence is inadmissible, meaning
that prosecutors can have trouble obtaining convictions in terrorism cases,
which can depend heavily on such intercepts.

Other proposals being considered include enacting a new rule that would
allow the security services to interview suspects who have been arrested on
charges unrelated to terrorism; and two new measures, supported by the
Conservatives, that would create a dedicated police force for Britain's
borders, including airports and ports; and that would encourage imams to
train in Britain rather than abroad.

"If they can be brought up and trained in British culture, you get less
likelihood of extremism," a spokesman for the party said.

The Liberal Democrats, usually the party most concerned with civil
liberties, said today that they were scrutinizing the new proposals closely
but were eager to preserve the new cross-party consens

[osint] The Terrorists' Motivation: Islam

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http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4329


The Terrorists' Motivation: Islam
by Edwin A. Locke  (July 24, 2005)

Summary: Their attempt to practice religion consistently explains the
terrorists' actions.

---

The continued attacks by Islamic terrorists against the West--most recently,
the horrific suicide bombings in London--have led many to ask, what is the
motivation of the terrorists? Commentators are eager to offer a bevy of
pseudo-explanations--poverty, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc.--while
ignoring the motivation the terrorists themselves openly proclaim: Islam.

The near silence about the true role of Islam in motivating Islamic
terrorists has two main causes: multiculturalism and religion.
Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may
criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to
declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture. And
the strong commitment to religion of many Americans, especially
conservatives, makes them reluctant to indict a religion as the cause of a
massive evil. But if we are to identify the fundamental cause of the
terrorists' actions, we must understand at least two fundamental premises of
the religion they kill for.

First, Islam, like all religions, rejects reason as a means of gaining
knowledge and guiding action; it holds that all important truths are grasped
by faith in supernatural beings and sacred texts. The Koran explicitly
states that knowledge comes from revelation, not thinking. (Christianity in
pure form entails a similar rejection of reason, but it has been heavily
diluted and secularized since the Renaissance.) Islam advocates the
subordination of every sphere of life to religious dogma, including the
legal system, politics, economics, and family life; the word "Islam" means
literally: submission. The individual is not supposed to think independently
but to selflessly subordinate himself to the dictates of his religion and
its theocratic representatives. We have seen this before in the West--it was
called the Dark Ages.

Second, as with any religion that seeks converts, a derivative tenet of
Islam is that it should be imposed by force (you cannot persuade someone of
the non-rational). The Koran is replete with calls to take up arms in its
name: "fight and slay the Pagans wherever you find them . . . those who
reject our signs we shall soon cast into the fire . . . those who
disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be
poured down on their heads . . . as to the deviators, they are the fuel of
hell."

These ideas easily lead to fanaticism and terrorism. In fact, what is often
referred to as the "fanaticism" of many Muslims is explicitly endorsed by
their religion. Consider the following characteristics of religious
fanatics. The fanatic demands unquestioning obedience to religious dogma--so
does Islam. The fanatic cannot be reasoned with, because he rejects
reason--so does Islam. The fanatic eagerly embraces any call to impose his
dogma by force on those who will not adopt it voluntarily--so does Islam.

The terrorists are not "un-Islamic" bandits who have "hijacked a great
religion"; they are consistent and serious followers of their religion.

It is true that many Muslims who live in the West (like most Christians)
reject religious fanaticism and are law-abiding and even loyal citizens, but
this is because they have accepted some Western values, including respect
for reason, a belief in individual rights, and the need for a separation
between church and state. It is only to the extent that they depart from
their religion--and from a society that imposes it--that they achieve
prosperity, freedom, and peace.

In the last year, there has been more and more of a call for a "War of
Ideas"--an intellectual campaign to win the "hearts and minds" of the Arab
world that will discourage and discredit Islamic terrorism. Unfortunately,
the centerpiece of this campaign so far has been to appeal to Muslims with
claims that Islam is perfectly consistent with Western ideals, and
inconsistent with terrorism. America has groveled to so-called "moderate"
Muslim leaders to strongly repudiate terrorism, with little success. (Those
leaders have focused little energy on damning Islamic fanaticism, and much
on the alleged sins of the US government.) Such a campaign cannot work,
since insofar as these "moderates" accept Islam, they cannot convincingly
oppose violence in its name. A true "War of Ideas" would be one in which we
proclaim loudly and with moral certainty the secular values we stand for:
reason, rights, freedom, material prosperity, and personal happiness on this
earth.


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[osint] Moderate Jihad? Bush Administration doesn't get the relig ious roots of fanatical Islamists.

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http://www.theonerepublic.com/archives/Columns/Thornton/20050726ThorntonMode
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Moderate Jihad?
Bush Administration doesn't get the religious roots of fanatical Islamists.
[by Bruce S. Thornton] 7/26/05

As stalwart as the Bush administration has been in the current conflict with
Islamic jihadists, judging from the op-ed in last Saturday's New York Times
by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and Homeland Security Advisor
Frances Townsend, it still entertains dangerous illusions about the enemy we
are facing.


Contributor
Bruce S. Thornton 

Bruce Thornton is a professor of Classics at Cal State Fresno and co-author
of Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an
 Impoverished Age and author of
Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization

(Encounter Books). His most recent book is Searching for Joaquin: Myth,
Murieta, and History in

California (Encounter Books). [go to Thornton index

]

Hadley and Townsend reprise the narrative the administration has used all
along in making sense of our adversary. Those wishing to destroy us are
enemies of freedom who espouse a totalitarian ideology akin to fascism and
communism. As such, they are driven by a diseased passion for domination
that will brook no dissent nor allow for ideals such as tolerance and human
rights. And they gain traction from "conditions of despair and feelings of
resentment where freedom is denied." Thus America must promote democratic
freedom and prosperity to remove those conditions, for "people everywhere
prefer freedom to slavery and will embrace it whenever they can, because
freedom is the wish of every human being." Finally, since these terrorists
are enemies of Islam as well, we must support those Muslims who "are
speaking the truth about their proud religion and history, and seizing it
back from those who would hijack it for evil ends."

The key to this mistaken interpretation is the short shrift given to the
power of spiritual needs--an omission surprising given how religious the
media keeps telling us this administration is. That ignoring of spiritual
reality is what makes the analogy with fascism and communism false. Both of
those ideologies were anti-Christian: fascism was a species of debased
Romantic neo-paganism, and communism was blatantly atheist. As such, both
ran counter to the powerful Judeo- Christian forces that shaped European and
Russian civilization, and so could not satisfy for long the spiritual
yearnings of the people, yearnings denied their traditional expressions.
Thus these ideologies were doomed because they denied not just political
freedom, but the powerful human need for religious expression and spiritual
experience.

The jihadist enemy, on the other hand, is operating on principles and values
squarely in the tradition of Islam, and thus unlike fascism and communism is
expressing a spiritual need and an orthodox religious mandate: to fulfill by
force the will of Allah that all the world be subject to Islam and an
Islamic state, the caliphate, ruled by sharia, Islamic religious law. Those
conquered infidels who refuse to convert are reduced to dhimmi, subordinated
and humiliated peoples whose restricted rights, diminished lives, and
circumscribed behavior testify to the superiority of their Muslim overlords
and their divine right to oppress the infidel and exploit him economically.
This dynamic of jihad and dhimmitude has been extensively documented by Bat
Ye'or and other scholars, and is apparent on every page of Islamic
jurisprudence, theology, and history from the eighth century to today.

Those who, like Hadley and Townsend, suggest otherwise are contradicting not
just that history but also the beliefs and sentiments of millions of
contemporary Muslims, who understand clearly what their own religion teaches
and how it should be practiced. How else do we make sense of the continued
widespread support for homicide bombings and Al Qaeda visible in poll after
poll of Muslims worldwide? Even so- called "moderates" and Westernized
Muslims can't help letting slip their true beliefs even as they try to spin
the latest terrorist murder. Dr. Azzam Tamimi, a senior member of the Muslim
Association of Britain and a Hamas member who is frequently featured on the
BBC, has made clear his support for Palestinian Arab murder of Israelis, his
belief that Islamic religious law (sharia) should not be compromised to
coexist with liberal democracy, his admiration of the Taliban, and his
desire to see Israel destroyed. 

Inayat Bunglawla, another "moderate" spokesman for the Muslim Council of
Britain, has been all over CNN since the bombings in London. In a recent
BB

[osint] Boy who made online threats gets 4 1/2 to 22 years in prison

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Boy who made online threats gets 4 1/2 to 22 years in prison
http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/072205/loc_osantow001.shtml

July 22, 2005
By Chad Halcom
Macomb Daily Staff Writer

A Macomb County judge sentencing Andrew Paul Osantowski on Thursday seemed
to view him more as a troubled teen with a chance to turn his life around,
rather than a sociopath poised to become a schoolyard terrorist.

Osantowski, 18, wept openly at times as Circuit Judge Matthew Switalski
sentenced him to 30 months to 20 years in prison for making a threat of
terrorism and use of a computer in furtherance of a terrorist threat, plus
two years consecutively for felony use of a firearm, in what officials call
plans for a Columbine-style massacre at Chippewa Valley High School.

With credit for roughly 10 months of time already served, Osantowski could
be free in just over three and one-half years.

"Looking back on it, I think the person who said those things was lost,"
Osantowski said of his threats in a statement he prepared for his sentencing
Thursday. "The Internet sites I would visit are not responsible for what I
did, I am. And it seems to me like the world stopped in September and I've
only known captivity and isolation since then."

Switalski also noted that Osantowski "still had a future" and noted the
irony of a young Polish man being "a national socialist at 18" -- a
reference to the Nazi and white power paraphernalia and flags recovered from
his home after his arrest. But he added that the defendant could still
salvage his future.

"You have to pay the piper," he told Osantowski. "But we also want to give
you the best chance at salvation and righting yourself again."

The sentence -- far less than the 9-year minimum prosecutors had hoped to
see prior to Thursday's hearing -- arises from differing interpretations of
the sentencing guidelines used to calculate his prison time. Prosecutors
tried to argue that Osantowski threatened the use of "a harmful ...
incendiary or explosive device," which would have bumped his minimum up to
seven years on the terrorism charge.

But Switalski took a broader view of the language that would have required
prosecutors to show he "committed an act of terrorism by" making the threat.

"That may be a problem in the way the guidelines were phrased or spelled
out, and I think they really ought to be redone," said Macomb County
Prosecutor Eric Smith. "But I'm not trying to dispute the way the judge
applied the guidelines today."

Nevertheless, Smith said, he and his staff may consider a cross-appeal
addressing that issue and ask for more prison time for Osantowski if the
defense appeals his conviction. Defense attorney Brian Legghio said his
client will definitely file an appeal and he expects the conviction to be
reversed.

"I think the judge was pretty brilliant in his analysis of the situation,"
Legghio said of the sentence being lighter than prosecutors' expectations.
"I don't even think he's capable now of the thinking he was exhibiting then.
He is very remorseful for it."

A senior and new student at Chippewa Valley, Osantowski was arrested Sept.
16 after Celia McGinty, a 16-year-old Idaho girl, became concerned upon
reading his remarks in a Yahoo chat room on the Internet alluding to a
proposed a "rampage" at the Clinton Township public school. The girl told
her father, a police officer in Washington state who then notified Clinton
Township police about a week after the last chat discussion.

Local officers in turn secured a search warrant and uncovered a cache of
firearms at Osantowski's home, plus some bomb-making components, a Nazi flag
and materials on Adolf Hitler and white power.

Arrested along with Osantowski last fall were his father, 53-year-old Marvin
Osantowski, and 33-year-old Dominic Queentry, a neighbor and acquaintance.
But Queentry already resolved his court case with a fairly nominal sentence
after a plea in court, and the elder Osantowski is free on bond awaiting a
separate trial of his own.

The Osantowski family declined to comment on his sentencing in court
Thursday.

Deena Terzo, a school liaison officer threatened by Andrew Osantowski, was
in court Thursday with Chippewa Valley assistant superintendent Michael
Reever. She also declined to comment but told the court in a prepared
statement that Osantowski's threats, when she later read them, had scared
her.

"If he had been successful in taking (my life) he would have had free reign
to kill or harm anyone in the school building that day after that," she
said. "If he had not been successful, I would've had to take his life to
stop him from (the rampage). A police officer never wants to have to take
someone's life.

"He wanted to be a godlike figure, and have people beg him to spare their
life. He had a plan and it was only a matter of time before he carried it
out."

Switalski also took Smith to task in court Thursday for publicly disparaging
the judge's previous decision to suppress part of Osantowski's videot

[osint] $35,000 handed out in incentives to lure police officers

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$35,000 handed out in incentives to lure police officers 

Program pays for referrals, officer bonuses

Chris Ramirez
The Arizona Republic
Jul. 1, 2005 12:00 AM 

Gilbert has paid about $35,000 since 2003 as part of its recruitment of
police officers. 

Existing workers have been paid $6,250 in incentives for referring police
candidates, according to records kept by the Police Department's planning
and research office. 

An employee gets $250 when the referred applicant is hired and $250 when the
applicant completes field training. 

 

Gilbert also paid $28,500 in signing bonuses and incentives for officers
once they completed field training and were sworn in.

Sworn officer recruits get $1,500 after completing the academy.

During the last year, the town has become more aggressive about increasing
its number of sworn officers to keep pace with its enormous growth. 

About $15,000 in incentives have been paid since November, according to
police records. 

Gilbert officials are trying to staff one officer per every thousand
residents, but that can be a challenge in a community that takes in 1,000
residents each month. 

Gilbert's population is roughly 173,000 residents, nearly triple its size in
1990. 

Mayor Steve Berman said that while the incentives alone can't be credited
with recent hires, they don't hurt.

"No one thing attracts people to a community. It's a combination of
ingredients," he said. "But money is important. Everyone's got a number."

There have been 24 payouts for referrals since 2003. There have been eight
so far in 2005, five in 2004, and 11 in 2003.

Gilbert's incentives apply to the hiring of all types of police staff,
including clerks and dispatchers. Signing bonuses are awarded only to sworn
officers. 

Last month, a Town Council subcommittee approved 21 positions for sworn
personnel for fiscal year 2005-06. 

Gilbert also should pay more attention to compensating officers better after
they've gained experience on the Gilbert force, Councilman Don Skousen said.

"If we have officers in Mesa and Gilbert starting at the same time, but,
after five years, the officer in Gilbert is getting $300 less a month . . .
that's a problem," said Skousen, a former police officer.

 



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[osint] Bill Clinton Pardoned Nat'l. Security Leaker

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/26/101413.shtml

Bill Clinton Pardoned Nat'l. Security Leaker

No wonder 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been silent as a
churchmouse about Karl Rove while her Democratic colleagues call for his
prosecution for leaking classified information about CIA employee Valerie
Plame.

Turns out - in the only case in U.S. history of a person successfully
prosecuted for leaking classified information to the press - Hillary's
husband pardoned the guilty party. 

On January 20, 2001, President Clinton pardoned Samuel Loring Morison, a
civilian analyst with the Office of Naval Intelligence. 
In 1984, Morison had been convicted of providing classified satellite photos
of an under-construction Soviet nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to
Britain's Jane's Defence Weekly. 
He received a two-year jail sentence. 

In pardoning Morison, Clinton dismissed the advice of the CIA.

"We said we were obviously opposed - it was a vigorous 'Hell, no,'" 
one senior intelligence official told the Washington Post at the time. "We
think ... giving pardons to people who are convicted of doing that sends the
wrong signal to people who are currently entrusted with classified
information."

Morison is the only person ever successfully prosecuted under the
1917 Espionage Act, the law invoked by Democrats who want to nail Rove after
it became clear that he didn't violate the 1982 Intelligence Identities
Protection Act.

But it's going to be difficult for Dems to feign national security outrage
over Plame's outing when the husband of their party's presidential
front-runner let an actual convicted leaker off the hook.

Last week, when Sen. John Kerry called for Mr. Rove to be fired, with
Hillary standing by his side, she nodded silently. When reporters asked her
what she thought of the alleged Rove outrage, she offered only, "I'm
nodding."

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[osint] Ind. police department dumps stun guns

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Ind. police department dumps stun guns 

Associated Press
Jul. 26, 2005 11:55 AM 

Arizona Republic

 

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. - Faced with growing liability fears, the town's police
department has decided to stop using its stun guns on combative suspects.

Police Chief Nick Bravos said the department chose to get rid of its 12
Taser guns. Instead, its officers will use pepper when faced with
out-of-control suspects.

Overall, the town paid out an estimated $240,000 in 2003 for all
police-related claims linked to police conduct and performance of duties. In
2004, such pay-outs were reduced to $25,000, and the first seven months of
2005 have been virtually claim free, Bravos said.

 

To prevent any person from being endangered by the stun guns' electrical
shocks, Bravos said he decided the department could do without them.

Arizona-based Taser International Inc. says studies show the weapons are
safe.

The department in the town just south of Gary added Tasers to its arsenal in
2001, but Bravos said the older model guns were rarely used and officers had
experienced malfunctions.

"In one instance, one of our policemen used a Taser and the suspect said,
'That's all you've got?' " Bravos said. "If they are not working that's just
an invite to a dangerous situation."

Bravos said in addition to shedding the stun guns, he's made it a department
policy for handcuffs on arrestees to be double-locked. The second lock
prevents continual tightening, which can often lead to injury and liability
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[osint] NIGERIA: Kano introduces separate sex buses as it tightens Shari''ah law

[Bruce Tefft]

 

> NIGERIA: Kano introduces separate sex buses as it tightens Shari'ah 
> law
>
> [This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United 
> Nations]
>
>
> KANO, 26 July (IRIN) - Women in Kano State have been banned from 
> riding in
the same buses as men and from riding behind men on motorcycles as the state
government extends its application of Islamic Shari'ah law.
>
> The separation of the sexes in this state in northern Nigeria will be
enforced by a 9,000-strong religious police force with the power to fine
people who ignore the new rules.
>
> State governor Ibrahim Shekarau launched the implementation of the new 
> law
on Tuesday at a ceremony at Kano city stadium attended by 10,000 chanting
supporters.
>
> He told them that the new road traffic law promulgated by the state
government earlier this year would stop "the mixture of men and women in
commercial vehicles and the carrying of women on motorcycles."
>
> "Our aim is to be at the forefront of conducting our activities 
> decently
and to protect Allah's Sharia," Shekarau added to chants of "Allah is
great!"
>
> At the ceremony, the state governor formally presented new 100 
> mini-buses,
100 motor cycles and 300 motor tricycles which have bought to ease the
implementation of the new law.
>
> Motorcycles as well as cars are widely used as taxis in Kano city.
>
> Shekaru said his government had recruited 9,000 Hisbah or Islamic law
enforcers to help with the implementation of the law.
>
> Transport operators who mix men and women in their vehicles risk a 
> fine of
5,000 naira (US $38) or a six-month suspension of their license.
>
> However, some exceptions will still be allowed. A man will still be 
> able
to ride in the same car or taxi as his wife and children, for example.
>
> Kano is one of 12 states in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north that
adopted the strict Shari'ah code in 2000, but it is the first to introduce
segregated public transport.
>
> The introduction of Shari'ah deepened mutual suspicions between 
> Nigeria's
Muslim north and the mainly Christian south, erupting in periodic bouts of
sectarian violence in which thousands of people have died.
>
> Punishments under the legal code include amputation of limbs for 
> stealing,
stoning to death for adultery and homosexual activity and public flogging
for premarital sex and drinking alcohol.
>
> Kano's Muslims majority, for the most part, welcomed the new law.
>
> "It is against the injunctions of Allah for a man to sit close to a 
> woman
who is not his wife, and this is what happens in public vehicles," Suleiman
Musa, a Muslim cleric, told IRIN. "That is why we want this law."
>
> But the large Christian community in Kano, which will have to abide by 
> the
new rules too, was less happy.
>
> "In the first place the buses are not enough to serve the millions of
people in this city. But then I hope they limit the application to Muslims
only, because we Christians won't accept it," said Michael Akpabio, a
Christian Pentecostal preacher in the city.
>
> Kano, with a population of four million, is the biggest city in 
> northern
Nigeria and has long been a hotbed of sectarian violence.
>
> More than 200 people died in the last outburst of Muslim-Christian 
> clashes
in Kano in May 2004.
>
> [ENDS]
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[osint] Suspects 'lived in UK for 10 years'

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningchronicle/ukandworld/tm_objectid=1
5782696%26method=full%26siteid=50081%26headline=suspects%2d%2dlived%2din%2du
k%2dfor%2d10%2dyears%2d-name_page.html 

 

Suspects 'lived in UK for 10 years' 

Jul 26 2005

 


 


Both named men being hunted by police for the July 21 attempted bombings
arrived in Britain alongside asylum seekers when they were children, the
Home Office revealed.

The pair have been legally resident in the UK for more than 10 years and one
was awarded a British passport just last September.

They were not asylum seekers themselves but arrived in Britain as dependants
of principal asylum claimants, a Home Office spokeswoman said.

Terror suspect Yasin Hussan Omar is a Somalian national who arrived in
Britain aged 11 in 1992 as a dependant and was granted exceptional leave to
remain in the country. In May 2000 he was granted indefinite leave to
remain.

Muktar Said-Ibrahim, also known as Muktar Mohammed-Said, is a naturalised
British citizen, said the Home Office spokeswoman. He arrived in Britain
from Eritrea as a dependant in 1992, aged 14. Said-Ibrahim was granted
exceptional leave to remain, she said.

In November 2003 he applied for naturalisation as a British citizen and was
issued with his British passport in September last year, she added.

Omar has been handed thousands of pounds in taxpayers' money in recent
years. He was given £75 a week in housing benefit to pay for the one-bedroom
flat where he has been the registered tenant since February 1999.

His housing benefit stopped in May this year but he may have been given up
to £24,000 over the last six years.

The flat, on the ninth floor of a 12-storey tower block in New Southgate,
north London, is believed to have been used as a bomb factory by the suicide
team who unsuccessfully targeted the London transport network last Thursday.

Explosives experts were examining material found inside.

 

 



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[osint] MANPADS IN AMERICA: UPDATE

[David Bier]

"...a USAF B1-B Lancer, a long-range strategic bomber, was targeted
for shoot down by three suspected Islamic terrorists one week ago at
Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma."

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/SOsborne.asp

MANPADS IN AMERICA: UPDATE
 
Sean Osborne
Military Affairs and Senior Analyst
The Northeast Intelligence Network
 
Friday 22 July 2005
 
The following report has been corroborated by a high ranking US
military source. This report states in essence that a USAF B1-B
Lancer, a long-range strategic bomber, was targeted for shoot down by
three suspected Islamic terrorists one week ago at Tinker Air Force
Base, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The terrorists were forced to abort
their mission when run off by alert USAF Security.
 
TEAM TINKER BATTLE STAFF DIRECTIVE (BSD)  BSD # 41

DTG140825L Jul 05L   OPR: All
  SUSPENSE: Upon receipt

SUBJECT:  BSD# 40 Amendment

SITUATION:  On 14 Jul 05, three individuals were observed outside of
the perimeter of Tinker AFB, OK.  They were looking through
binoculars, taking pictures and one appeared to be holding a large
weapon at chest level.  The weapon appeared to be aimed towards a low
flying aircraft.  The three individuals were described as being of
Middle Eastern decent and left the area when approached. The weapon
was later identified as a rocket launcher (MANPAD) and the low flying
aircraft to be a B-1 Bomber.  FBI in Oklahoma City and AFOSI
determined the threat to be credible.  Due to this and other recent
incidents and security concerns surrounding Tinker AFB, OK, the
potential for suspicious activity in the Tinker AFB (TAFB) Area of
Responsibility (AOR) has increased.  While there is no specific threat
information directed towards the TAFB AOR, it is imperative that all
personnel remember their responsibilities to report any and all
suspicious activity they observe.

Link to the full report here:

http://www.sftt.us/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Unlisted%2edb&command=viewone&id=36

Assessment:

A.) It is now an established fact that Islamic terrorists have MANPADS
within the borders of the continental United States. The brazen
attempt to shoot down a US B-1B Lancer bomber flying out of Tinker AFB
is high risk endeavor in which they failed.

B.) As a result, the probability and risk factors for all US
commercial domestic aircraft is now HIGH - HIGH.

C.) Unknown are the quantity and specific type of MANPADS in the
terrorist inventory here in the United States.






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[osint] DOCTOR THREATENED UK BOMB ATTACKS

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 

http://www.thisishull.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136525

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DOCTOR THREATENED UK BOMB ATTACKS 
09:30 - 26 July 2005 

 

A Doctor threatened to blow up General Medical Council (GMC) offices after
500 failed job applications, a hearing was told. 

Dr Pramod Mahesh's anonymous letter claimed foreign medics had hired a
terrorist group to blow up the GMC unless prospects for overseas
professionals were improved.

The hoax, which included a list of demands, sparked an investigation
involving Special Branch and the Anti-Terrorist Squad.

Dr Mahesh, of Lonsdale Street, west Hull, claimed bomb squads from the Sri
Lankan extremist group the Liberation of the Tamil Tigers of Elam (LTTE) had
been instructed to destroy offices all over the UK unless they complied.

Detectives traced him and arrested him at his home in Hull after a tip-off
from a fellow doctor.

Dr Mahesh later confessed to sending the letter in "a moment of madness"
because he was in debt and could not find a job.

On October 26 last year, Dr Mahesh was charged with threatening to damage
property.

However, on December 9, 2004 at Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court in
London, the Crown Prosecution Service decided to withdraw the charge.

Dr Mahesh was bound over in the sum of £1,000 to keep the peace for 24
months, especially towards the GMC and its staff.

Dr Mahesh is now appearing at the hearing before the GMC in central London.

The committee could strike Dr Mahesh off the medical register if they decide
his fitness to practise is impaired.

Heather Norton, for the GMC, said a typed, unsigned and undated letter,
addressed to the body's president, was received on June 14 last year.

The letter was said to have been sent from the Unemployed Overseas Doctors'
Association.

Miss Norton said: "The letter was effectively a bomb threat purportedly
coming from people with connections to the LTTE, a terrorist organisation in
Sri Lanka, threatening to blow up the GMC centres all over the UK."

The committee heard the letter highlighted concerns from foreign doctors who
had taken the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board test and waited
more than a year for a job.

It complained about the way posts were advertised and vacancies were filled.

It also gave a list of 10 points the GMC should instigate to help overseas
medics, otherwise its offices would be bombed.

The letter said: "We have already made elaborate preparations to fulfil our
mission.

"There will be a series of explosions at GMC centres all over the UK. June
30 is the deadline.

"The credibility of the GMC is at stake. Act fast and save yourselves. Good
luck."

Police then arrested another doctor whose name had been written and
scribbled out.

The medic maintained his innocence and was cleared of any involvement but
told detectives Dr Mahesh may have written it.

Dr Mahesh was arrested on September 22 but initially made no comment in
interview.

While on bail, he phoned and e-mailed the GMC to apologise. After detailed
enquiries, officers found he had no connection to any extremist
organisations.

Dr Mahesh explained he came to the UK in 2003, having borrowed money from
friends and family, but could not get a job despite more than 500
applications.

The doctor said: "It was really hard to survive here without working. I was
jobless, moneyless. I was really helpless. I never meant to hurt anybody. I
wrote the letter out of utter distress."

In his letter of apology, Dr Mahesh also admitted his behaviour had been
"childish".



 



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[osint] Islamic Explosives courier jailed

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Explosives courier jailed


>From correspondents in Jakarta

July 26, 2005 

From: Agence France-Presse 

 

AN Indonesian convicted of delivering explosive materials to militants for
use in the deadly attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta has been
jailed for four years.

Judges at South Jakarta district court said Agus Ahmad bin Engkos Kosasih
was guilty of storing, transporting and hiding explosives used in the blast
last September that killed 11 people. 

The charges carried a maximum death penalty. 

Ahmad was also guilty of offering a ride to one of the alleged bombing
masterminds and of allowing several suspects in the attack to use his house
to plot the attack, chief judge Johannes Suhadim said. 

Prosecutors said the 32-year-old courier delivered explosives to fugitive
Malaysian explosives expert Azahari Husin at a house near Jakarta where he
was hiding with compatriot and fellow suspected terrorist Noordin Mohammad
Top. 

Noordin and Azahari are believed to behind a series of attacks in Indonesia,
including the October 2002 Bali bombings in which 202 people were killed and
an August 2003 attack on Jakarta's Marriott hotel that left 12 dead.

The Marriott, Bali and embassy bombings have been blamed on the Jemaah
Islamiyah extremist group believed to have links to al-Qaeda. 

Before the verdict today, Ahmad reiterated claims of innocence but said he
expected to be convicted due to foreign pressure on the world's largest
Muslim-populated country. 

"This Government is still a puppet of America and Australia because they
continue to oppress Muslims," he told reporters. 

"If they release me, then it is the only proof of a fair trial." 

Ahmad said he would appeal against the verdict, which was lighter than the
five years demanded by prosecutors. 

An Indonesian court last week jailed Irun Hidayat, 33, for 42 months after
he was found guilty of being an accessory to the embassy attack. 

More than 20 people have been detained in connection with the bombing. 

 



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[osint] SECURITY BEAT

[David Bier]

"We are literally giving our keys to terrorists," 
"A terrorist attack using tractor trailers is inevitable, at least
according to Terry M. Evans, CEO and President of Fleet Defender
Consulting Services LLC."

http://enews.primediabusiness.com/enews/acss/security_beat/current

SECURITY BEAT
July 26, 2005


Table Of Contents
Terrorism preparendess in NYC brings unexpected results
Industry group takes identity fraud message to Congress
Radioactive passengers setting off alarms
Tractor trailer attack inevitable? 


News

Terrorism preparendess in NYC brings unexpected results
The New York Police Department has dispatched its own explosives
expert to Great Britain to study the London suicide bombings.
And although terrorism is uppermost on patrolling officers' minds in
the New York subway, the increased vigilance has netted a pleasant
side effect: Crime in the subways is down 23 percent over last year.
Transit officials say their increased presence has "led to a drastic
drop in violence."
But the city is pushing on in its anti-terrorism efforts. According to
The Associated Press, the NYPD has contacted chemical suppliers and
other potential commercial sources for bomb components in the New York
city area and asked them to contact investigators if they notice
anything suspicious.
Investigators in London have reportedly speculated the bombers in the
July 7 attacks used TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, a highly unstable
explosive made from commercially available chemicals such as acid,
acetone and peroxide.
An NYPD detective with training in explosives recently returned to New
York "with a detailed analysis of the bomb-making techniques used in
London," says Michael Sheehan, deputy commissioner of counterterrorism.
Officials said the expert's trip was part of broader effort to work
with private companies to secure the city. Police Commissioner Raymond
Kelly recently invited 600 security directors from large hotels, Wall
Street firms, Broadway theaters, storage facilities and other
businesses to police headquarters to unveil a program called NYPD Shield.
The program will encourage businesses to team with the NYPD to assess
and revise their security measures. The police department plans to
share unclassified intelligence and security tips at an upcoming
series of counterterrorism briefings and training programs.
Sheehan said the NYPD already has conducted hundreds of security
assessments of businesses around the city, advising them to use more
video surveillance, better lighting and more guards.
The department hopes "to strike a balance between protecting the sites
and keeping the city open and inviting to live, work and invest in,"
he told The AP.

Industry group takes identity fraud message to Congress
More than 100 members of the The National Counsel of Investigation and
Security Services (NCISS) collectively met with various members of the
U.S. Senate and House to discuss the potential harmful and unintended
ramifications of various personal information protection bills and to
form an Identity Fraud Summit.
"Congress was very receptive," said Brain McGuinness, president of
NCISS (www.nciss.org). "We provided legislators with insight into the
role of professional investigators, the judicial system, the legal
community, law enforcement, corporate security and private citizens."
The Hill appointments and Summit are continuations of NCISS' efforts
to draw attention to the concerns and potential unintended problems
created by limiting the access of investigators to information that
helps them fight crime. While NCISS advocates the protection of
personal identification information, including stiffer penalties and
improved enforcement, as well as notification of security breaches,
the organization is working to develop legislation that provides an
exemption for licensed investigators requiring access for specific
cases, particularly identity theft.
The NCISS, with the support of security organizations including ASIS
Intl., Security Companies Organized for Legislative Action (SCOLA) and
the International Association of Security and Investigative Regulators
(IASIR), have developed a "Six Point Identity Protection Program":
1. Conduct thorough credentialing of new accounts and those where a
review indicates a new check is in order;
2. Deny Internet sales of personal identification information to the
general public;
3. Increase penalties, such as fines and jail sentences, for the
misuse of personal information;
4. Enact legislation requiring data providers to notify customers of
breaches;
5. Prohibit use of Social Security Numbers on identification documents
such as healthcare insurance cards, drivers' licenses and state
permits; and
6. Allow access to personal data for licensed individuals who can
demonstrate a need and have submitted to a background investigation. 

 Radioactive passengers setting off alarms
For some medical tests, radioactive chemicals are injected right into
the bloodstream. While the medical procedur

[osint] AUSTRALIA: Hardline cleric says he meets ASIO regularly

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 

Hardline cleric says he meets ASIO regularly


By Marian Wilkinson, Andrew Clennell and Anne Davies
July 27, 2005

Sydney Morning Herald

Sheik Mohammed Omran, the radical Melbourne cleric under attack from the
Prime Minister, John Howard, and the Premier, Bob Carr, says he is still
having regular meetings with the Victorian head of ASIO.

"We meet once a month, sometimes [every] two weeks, and if there are
difficulties we need to meet once a week," Sheik Omran told the Herald.
While he served the ASIO chief coffee, he said the meetings were official,
not social.

Sheik Omran believed there was no current threat "to Australia from inside
Australia" but added, "I pray that I am right." He said if there was a
threat it stemmed from Australia's relationship with the United States.

But Sheik Omran held to his controversial view that Osama bin Laden was not
entirely responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks, saying he still
believed he had what he called "inside help".

Sheik Omran's latest comments came as Islamic figures called on their
clerics and community leaders to condemn terrorism and extremism.

Mr Carr is being asked to consider appointing an Islamic Arabic adviser in
his office and to hold a summit of Islamic representatives before a meeting
on Thursday with the state's Islamic leaders.

Representatives from the Lebanese Muslims Association, the Australian
Federation of Islamic Councils, the Islamic Friendship Association, the
Australian Ahl-Al-Bait Islamic Centre, a group which represents Iraqi
Shiites, and the Islamic Council of NSW are among those understood to have
been invited to the one-hour meeting with the Premier.

The former Community Relations Commissioner, Belmore GP Jamal Rifi, said he
had presented a submission to the Premier's office calling for steps to help
relations between Muslims and non-Muslims.

"We need to encourage government agencies to view the Islamic community
members as a first line of defence rather than a potential terror threat,"
he said.

Mr Rifi said that all Islamic religious leaders and activists could be
gathered to debate issues facing Muslims in NSW in parliamentary style and
the meeting would hopefully result in an "unequivocal denunciation of all
acts of terror".

As Muslim leaders expressed concern about public reaction, 2GB talkback host
Ray Hadley attacked the chief executive of the Australian Federation of
Islamic Councils, Amjad Mehboob, for his view reported in yesterday's Herald
that callers had said Muslims should be sent packing from the country and
mosques closed town. Hadley said he had not heard any caller express these
views.

"Every time this is up for debate, this type of radio, talkback radio, gets
unjustly blamed when in fact we are not the perpetrators of what you're
portraying today in the Sydney Morning Herald," Hadley said.

But Mr Mehboob said while callers might have not used his exact words, "What
I said was the sentiments to that effect were being expressed by very many
on the radio, by very many people."

The Premier's meeting, which will be held at Governor Macquarie Tower, will
be attended by up to 40 Muslim leaders.

Islamic Friendship of Australia spokesman Keysar Trad said he hoped to urge
Mr Carr to help him change the terminology concerning the terrorist threat.

"We need to stop reinforcing the idea they are Islamic," Mr Trad said. "We
have to stop referring to them as Islamic and just say 'murderers'."

The Islamic Council of NSW said it would be putting the view strongly to the
Premier that Muslims shared many of the concerns of the broader public,
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[osint] Airport security could get a little more intimate

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 

Airport security could get a little more intimate


By Neil McMahon
July 27, 2005

Sydney Morning Herald



A traveller's checklist: luggage, passport, visa, ticket. And now this: do I
look good naked?

Sydney Airport says it is keeping a close eye on overseas trials of a
machine that can see through your clothes and show whether you are carrying
a bomb or a gun. The drawback is that in answering the question "Is that a
gun in your pocket?", it removes the pocket - and the rest of your clothing,
too, leaving security staff looking at an image of you naked on a screen.

The technology - millimetre-wave imaging, which detects radiation emitted by
the body - is being trialled at airports in Britain and the United States.
It is billed as an electronic strip search, but civil liberties groups have
raised privacy concerns, as well as fears that images, particularly those of
children, could be misused.

In a submission to a federal inquiry into aviation safety, Sydney Airport
Corporation says the Australian industry is "making inquiries into
millimetre-wave technology . however, it is understood that privacy may be
an important issue."

Kyile Whyte, the airport's manager of security infrastructure and
technology, said the intrusiveness of the scans would make it difficult to
sell to the public in its current form. They were also slow.

"It's a very tedious procedure, you have to stand in three different
positions to get a clear image, so in terms of [processing] passengers it's
very time-consuming," he said.

Greg Timms, a research scientist heading the CSIRO's millimetre-wave
project, said addressing privacy issues was vital. "You don't want to
develop something that has got no hope of regulatory approval."

The CSIRO team is working on a millimetre-wave scanner that produces even
sharper images than those developed overseas. Dr Timms said a prototype
would be ready in about a month, but how it would be used had still to be
decided. "From a commercial point of view, public security and airport
security is the leading opportunity."

The rays can also pass through smoke, clouds and fog, meaning the technology
could be used by pilots and firefighters.

British immigration authorities are already using the scanners to detect
illegal immigrants hiding in canvas-covered trucks.

Eventually, police may be able to scan large crowds, or carry mobile units
that can show drugs or weapons on nightclub patrons. In Britain, there has
been discussion about installing them at train stations and in schools.

That, Dr Timms said, is a little way off, because the image quality on
hand-held units is "pretty poor", and the technology extremely expensive.

 



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[osint] Divers recover cannon from CSS Alabama in English Channel

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http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8B9URE00.html
 
 Divers recover cannon from CSS Alabama in English Channel 

07/12/2005 

Associated Press 


The 7,000-pound main battery pivot gun of the Confederate sea raider CSS
Alabama has been recovered from the bottom of the English Channel, where the
vessel was sunk 141 years ago by a Union warship, a project spokesman said. 

The cannon was brought to the surface by the French naval vessel Elan, said
Gordon Watts, an underwater archaeologist from North Carolina who is
overseeing the project. Watts told the Mobile Register in a story Tuesday
that French divers and American archaeologists recovered the cannon Saturday
about 7 miles off the coast of Cherbourg, France, in 200 feet of water. 

He said the cannon will be placed in a specially constructed container and
shipped to the U.S. for conservation. A project supporter in Mobile said it
will be taken to the underwater archaeology lab at Texas A&M University. 

The CSS Alabama attacked Union merchant ships around the world during the
U.S. Civil War. It was sunk in a battle with the USS Kearsarge off the
French coast. 

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CSS Alabama cannon raised

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 
By GEORGE WERNETH 
Staff Reporter 

The 7,000-pound main battery pivot gun of the Confederate sea raider CSS
Alabama was recovered from the bottom of the English Channel this past
weekend, where the vessel was sunk 141 years ago by a Union warship, a
project spokesman said. 

"The cannon was brought to the surface by the French naval vessel Elan which
is equipped with a special 'A' frame on the stern to facilitate lifting
heavy objects," according to Gordon Watts, an underwater archaeolo gist from
North Carolina. Watts has been overseeing the project. 

Watts reported to the Mobile Register by e-mail from France that the mammoth
cannon was recovered Saturday by a team of French divers and American
archaeologists. The wreck site is in some 200 feet of water, about 7 miles
off the coast of Cherbourg, France. 

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[osint] What Really Happenend At Tinker Air Force Base?

[Bruce Tefft]

 

UPDATE: What Really Happened At Tinker Air Force Base?

Sean Osborne
Military Affairs and Senior Analyst
The Northeast Intelligence Newtwork
26 July 2005

It is now time to lay all the cards on the table. In this game it is now
time to see, raise and call it like it is. Consider this a pre-emptive
strike.  I intend it to be devastating because some have declared war upon
us and our reputation. 

Lock and load.

It has become obvious that The Northeast Intelligence Network must make a
bold statement concerning the original as released document known as the
TEAM TINKER BATTLE STAFF DIRECTIVE (BSD) #41  by the Soldiers For The Truth
dot Org website  (  http://www.sftt.org ) presidied over by its president,
Mr. Roger Charles (some say he's an Army Vet, some say Marine Corps -- we've
seen no DD-214 to prove either claim).  It must be stressed that SFTT.ORG is
the releaser of that document. Where it came from and the specific
information it contains is wholly within the purview of SFTT.ORG and Mr.
Charles. In my email contact with Mr. Charles this past Saturday he'd
responded to my inquiry about this subject by stating the obvious concerning
problems with the perimeter roads and a telephone number in the text of the
document, which are those of Hill AFB, Ogden, Utah.  These issues have been
addressed above. I was also informed by Mr. Charles that the person who sent
the document to SFTT.ORG is a Major in the United States Air Force, and that
he could not be reached for clarifications until Monday (yesterday). Again,
this document ORIGINATED with the Soldiers For The Truth website. These are
hard-core facts which cannot be revised or altered. Period.

Secondly, I am being informed that the Public Information Officer for the
FBI Office in Oklahoma City, Mr. Gary Johnson, has been maligning myself and
the Northeast Intelligence Network regarding my reporting on the original
Soldiers For The Truth website report, claiming that I am guilty of
perpetuating "a hoax".  Mr. Johnson, if the document is "a hoax", then you
need to contact Mr. Roger Charles about that as he is THE ORIGINATOR.
Period.

However, that said I must reiterate that I DO NOT believe the core report
about a MANPADS  incident on the southern perimeter of Tinker AFB near Lake
Stanley Draper in Oklahoma City is a hoax. I think it is real, and I think
the efforts to suppress the report and the truth are in a full-court press,
perhaps at the behest of the individuals named above. I don't know that for
a fact yet, but I have solidly based suspicions such may be the case. I have
other sources of information on the periphery of this issue as well.

It is a fact that within minutes of the posting of my report to friends
within my email group I had received three corroborations that the report
was a true "real world" incident. With these corroborations the decision was
made to file the original report on the mainpage of the Northeast
Intelligence Network. The list of corroborating sources has grown since that
time. 

My original sources are professional men of the absolute highest character,
and maligning myself maligns them also. One is a highly respected former US
intelligence official directly involved in counter-terrorism, who also
received corroboration directly from within the walls of the White House. A
second corroborating source is a highly respected senior military
intelligence officer who personally checked other sources to verify the
Tinker AFB Battle Staff Directive.
A third source is a former Air Force serviceman, also with distinguished
credentials.
These men and others who have been in direct contact with myself are true
patriots in the service of this country as am I and the rest of the staff of
the Northeast Intelligence Network. I am not so sure the same can be said of
our detractors, or their agenda in the War on Terror which we are fighting.

Here are some emails I have received from individuals who will remain
anonymous. Their words are clear, concise and the meanings are inescapable.

"I am a police officer here in the Oklahoma city area and I wanted to let
you know that the person who supposedly saw these individuals has admitted
that he was lying to investigators, anyways that is what we have been told
[by] the Feds.  That has not been released to the public.  In fact the news
media here in OKC was kept out of the loop about the story altogether.
Several other things also happened in the OKC area also that has not been
released to the public but at this time T can not speak openly about [them]
You guys keep up the hard work, you are still a great source of news and
information.


 "[I] talked with my cousin who is an Intelligence Officer at Offutt [Air
Force Base, Bellevue, Nebraska]. Your recent story is apparently the
proverbial tip of the iceberg. The good news is that our officials in charge
know who is really behind the whole operation. So the public feigning of
dumb is just SUN TSU. The bad news is he said there's a lot of puc

[osint] Bin Laden Cocaine Plot Fell Through

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163633,00.html

Report: Bin Laden Cocaine Plot Fell Through

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

By Dan Mangan

WASHINGTON - Usama bin Laden tried to buy a massive amount of cocaine, spike
it with poison and sell it in the United States, hoping to kill thousands of
Americans one year after the Sept. 11 attacks, The Post has learned.

The evil plot failed when the Colombian drug lords bin Laden approached
decided it would be bad for their business - and, possibly, for their own
health, according to law-enforcement sources familiar with the Drug
Enforcement Administration's (search) probe of the aborted transaction.

The feds were told of the scheme earlier this year, but its existence had
never been made public. The Post has reviewed a document detailing the DEA's
findings in the matter, in addition to interviewing sources familiar with
the case.

Sources said the feds were told that bin Laden personally met with leaders
of a Colombian drug cartel to in 2002 to negotiate the purchase of tons of
cocaine, saying that he was willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to
finance the deal.

It was not clear where the meeting took place.

Bin Laden hoped that large numbers of Americans dying from poisoned coke
would lead to widespread terror.

"They wanted to kill thousands of people - more than the World Trade
Center," said a source.

Although the drug lords would have reaped millions of dollars in profits by
selling the cocaine to bin Laden, they knew that if his plan succeeded it
might effectively destroy the market for their coke in America for years,
sources said.

But that was only one reason they declined bin Laden's offer.

The other was their fear of retaliation from the U.S. government once its
citizens started to die from the drugs, according to sources.

Despite bin Laden's plan being thwarted, the DEA believes that al Qaeda
continues to this day to traffic in drugs to fund a variety of its
operations - including training, traveling and terror attacks.

In 2002, then-DEA Director Asa Hutchinson (search) said, "The DEA [has]
received multi-source information that Usama bin Laden himself has been
involved in the financing and facilitation of heroin-trafficking
activities."

"It is important we recognize that when money goes from the pocket of an
American to buy drugs, it may contribute to the financing of unspeakable
crimes of violence around the world," Hutchinson told Congress that year
when he detailed the narcotics trade connection to al Qaeda and other terror
groups.

In April of this year, Afghan tribal leader Hajji Bashir Noorzai (search),
who was one of the most wanted drug dealers in the world and previously had
been identified as bin Laden's major heroin supplier, was busted in New York
City on federal criminal charges.

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[osint] Muslims: Co-operating with non-Muslims (the enemy)

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 

Co-operating with non-Muslims

Question: A brother from the Philippines asks, "One of the methods used in
converting Muslims to Christianity in the Philippines nowadays is, that
material and spiritual help is given by priests to the Imaam
  of the masjid
  and his particular group. In return, the Christian priest is
allowed to give a weekly talk to a mixture of Muslims and Christians instead
of the Friday Khutbah
 , What can we do to deal with this?"

Response: It is incumbent upon those who are in positions of responsibility
amongst the Muslims, scholars and so forth, to intervene and to stop these
people achieving their goals. They must expend what they can in order to
help the Muslims and to remove the need for them to turn to their enemy for
help. They must be aware of the schemes and plots of the enemy and encourage
patience in such situations and urge the Muslims to be distant from their
enemies and not to mix with them nor to listen to their sermons because they
call to the fire while the people of Islaam call to paradise. 

The Muslim possessed of faith must be steadfast and anticipate Allaah's
reward in his affliction. He must be patient with whatever hardship or need
might afflict him until he finds relief from it. It is for the other Muslims
to support, be charitable and do good to those Muslims who are in need,
cooperating and helping in anyway they can, even it is with something small.
When small amounts are added together they multiply and become large. If one
person provides what he can and another whatever he is able, in this way
great good can be accumulated. Muslims in need can then benefit from it and
become independent from their enemies who are always ready and waiting for a
calamity to befall the Muslims and who spend their wealth in order to lead
them to the Fire. We ask Allaah for safety from it!

It is also important that the leaders of the Muslim minorities and their
helpers write to those who they consider to be benevolent and to clarify to
them the needs of their poor brothers. They should also seek help from the
leaders of Islaamic centres and organisations in order that cooperation
might be to the fullest. Everyone must cooperate in what is good and
righteous and in providing lawful sustenance, which will help them in
obedience to Allaah in their own countries. They should give importance to
earning through industry that will benefit them or through any other
wholesome work that will free them from dependence upon their enemies.

In an authentic hadeeth
  the Messenger of Allaah (sal-Allaahu
 `alayhe wa sallam) said: ((Strive for what benefits you, seek
help from Allaah, and do not be impotent and incapable.)) The believer
should, therefore, move and strive to obtain his provision in a lawful way
in order that he frees himself from the need to turn to Allaah's enemy for
help.

Shaykh Ibn Baaz
 
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[osint] Fewer Americans Link Islam to Violence

[Bruce Tefft]

Obviously, fewer Americans are even thinking...
 
Bruce 

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


POLL: FEWER AMERICANS LINK ISLAM TO VIOLENCE
CAIR says Muslim anti-terror message is being heard


(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/26/05) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) today welcomed the results of a new survey showing that the public's
concerns over recent terror bombings do not translate into less favorable
opinions of either American Muslims or Islam.

The nationwide survey of 2,000 adults by the Pew Research Center for the
People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life also
indicates that the number of Americans who believe Islam is more likely than
other religions to encourage violence fell significantly to 36 percent from
44 percent two years ago. SEE: http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=89

According to the survey, which was conducted between the day of the first
terrorist attacks in London and July 17, a majority of Americans (55
percent) say they have a favorable opinion of American Muslims. That figure
is significantly higher than the 45 percent holding favorable views in March
2001, prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

"The results of this survey may be an indication that, while more work needs
to be done, the American Muslim community's anti-terror message is finally
being heard," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "Ordinary Americans
seem to understand that Islam, like Christianity, should not be defined by
the acts of a tiny minority of extremists." He said that Muslims are
increasingly becoming part of the fabric of American society, despite the
rise in Islamophobic rhetoric.

Awad added that CAIR recently released a nationwide television public
service announcement (PSA), called "Not in the Name of Islam," designed to
highlight the Muslim community's condemnation of terrorism and rejection of
those who carry out terror attacks. Almost two million people have already
viewed the PSA. (To view the PSA online, go to:
http://www.cair-net.org/video/psa.ram )

CAIR, America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, has 31 offices and
chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the
understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower
American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual
understanding.

To read CAIR's Mission, Vision Statement and Core Principles, go to:
http://www.cair-net.org/default.asp?Page=About


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releases and other materials dealing with American Muslim positions on
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[osint] Australia: Police search for ice cream truck bandits

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
See the last two paragraphs.
 
 J 
 

Police search for ice cream truck bandits


July 26, 2005 - 3:43PM

Sydney Morning Herald

Three men have robbed an ice-cream van driver at gunpoint in Sydney's
south-west.

The van was being driven along Burraneer Crescent, Greenacre, about 6.20pm
yesterday when it was flagged down by a man on the roadside, police said.

The 38-year-old male driver, believing the man wanted to make a purchase,
pulled over and got out before two other men appeared, threatening him with
a handgun and a knife.

The trio then made off with a sum of cash and items from the van.

The driver, a resident of North Parramatta, was unhurt.

Two of the men were described as being of Middle Eastern appearance, aged
between 25-30 and athletic in build. One was clean shaven while the other
had a close cropped beard and moustache.

The third man was described only as having a dark complexion and dark hair.

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[osint] NYC: Hurricane Risk: "The Big One"

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July 21, 2005 -- THE NEW YORK PRESS ON "The Big One" by Aaron Naparstek: 

"Experts say it's only a matter of time before a major hurricane strikes New
York City  

"'Try to tell someone in Sheepshead Bay that they have to evacuate
immediately because within the next 24 hours they'll have 30 feet of storm
surge on their neighborhood,' says Mike Lee [Director of Watch Command, NYC
Office of Emergency Management], before pausing to let you think about three
stories of ocean water roiling through your own neighborhood. "They'll laugh
at you-absolutely laugh at you," 

"...the strong consensus is that the metropolitan region is due for a big
one. Overdue, in fact.  The 1938 Long Island Express, a borderline
category-4 hurricane that plowed into West Hampton, causing widespread death
and devastation across New York, New Jersey and New England, was the last
major hurricane to hit the region. Statistically speaking, 'a storm of that
magnitude may repeat every 70 to 80 years or so,' Lee says. 'So, do the
math. Whether it happens this year, next year, or in five years, it's going
to happen.' 

"Though it is rare for big hurricanes to hit the New York metropolitan
region, there are a variety of 'oceanographic, demographic and geologic
characteristics that greatly amplify any hurricane' that comes our way,
according to Nicholas Coch, a professor of coastal geology at Queens
College. In many ways, Coch explains, 'The New York City area is the worst
possible place for a hurricane to make a landfall.' 

"New York's first vulnerability is psychologicalThe vast majority of the
city's eight million inhabitants simply have no idea that a hurricane can
happen here.  'We live in a complacent coastal city,' Lee says. 'A lot of
people don't even think that there are beaches here,' never mind 478 miles
of coastline. In fact, New York City is behind only Miami and New Orleans on
the list of U.S. cities most likely to suffer a major hurricane disaster


"New York's second vulnerability is demographicAt the time of the 1938
storm, Long Island wasn't a densely populated suburban sprawl; it was a
rural home for oyster fishermen, potato farmers and wealthy industrialists. 
The same storm today would wreak incredible havoc. AIR Worldwide Corporation
estimates $11.6 billion in New York losses alone.  More than 20 million
people live in the greater metropolitan region. Many live on coastal land,
reclaimed swamp and barrier islands. Much of Lower Manhattan is built on
landfill 

"New York City's biggest vulnerability is the most unyielding-geology. The
New York bight is the right angle formed by Long Island and New Jersey with
the city tucked into its apex. 'Hurricanes do not like right angles,' Lee
says.  '[They allow] water to accumulate and pile up.'  Couple this with the
fact that New York resides on a very shallow continental shelf, and as a big
storm pushes north, New York Harbor 'acts as a funnel.' As storm surge
forces its way into the harbor and up the rivers, it has nowhere to go but
onto land. New York City, it turns out, has some of the highest storm-surge
values in the country. 'When we see a category-3 storm making landfall in
Florida, it may only have a 12-, 13-foot storm surge,' Lee says. 'For us
here, a category-1 storm can give us 12 feet of storm surge.' 

"If a storm like the Long Island Express makes a direct hit on the city,
everything below Broome Street will be inundated, some parts under as much
as 20 and 30 feet of water. Chelsea and Greenwich Village are completely
flooded, with the Hudson spilling over all the way to 7th Avenue. Likewise,
the East River and East Village become one, with ocean water surging all the
way to 1st Avenue. If you haven't evacuated before the storm, forget it. 
During the storm, Manhattan's east- and west-side highways vanish. Tunnels
and bridges become unusableIn the event of a direct hit by a category-3
hurricane, surge maps show that the Holland and Battery Tunnels will be
completely filled with sea water, with many subway and railroad tunnels
severely flooded as well. The runways of LaGuardia and JFK airports will get
flooded by 18.1 and 31.2 feet of water, respectively. 

"Then there are the winds. We do know that hurricane wind speeds multiply at
higher altitudes. At 350 feet, the height of high-rise buildings on the
Battery and the towers of the George Washington Bridge, hurricane winds will
be twice as fast as they are on the ground. Newer, glass-skinned towers are
not likely to do well in those conditions 

"Hog Island: New York City's version of AtlantisHog Island became a sort
of 1890s version of the HamptonsThat all ended on the night of August
23, 1893, when a terrifying category-2 hurricane rolled up from Norfolk,
Virginia, and made landfall on what is now JFK airportIn Brooklyn...'the
water in the street was up to a man's waist,' and residents used ladders to
get in and out of their housesThe East River rose '

[osint] Australia: Federal police quiz Muslim over library books

[Bruce Tefft]

 

Federal police quiz Muslim over library books


By Clay Lucas and Julia Medew
July 26, 2005 - 4:46PM

The AGE

A Monash University lecturer has warned students that studying terrorism
could make them subject to federal police investigation.

Terrorism expert David Wright-Neville, who now works on Monash University's
global terrorism research project, told a packed lecture theatre of
second-year politics students that simply showing interest in terrorism
could make them a target.

"You need to know that if you are taking this subject, you too are under
scrutiny,'' he said.

The students were studying terrorism and violence in global politics offered
by the arts faculty.

Dr Wright-Neville's comments come after a Monash University student told ABC
radio he was questioned by federal police over books he had bought and
borrowed from the university library.

He said he agreed with the student's claim that he had been unfairly
targeted because he was Muslim.

The student, named only as "Abraham" said he was singled out of a group of
about 40 students who had previously specialised in terrorism and martyrdom.

He was suspected to be a national security threat and interviewed by a
federal police officer at his home last week.

"Last Thursday, I was sleeping, my wife came in at about 10 o'clock and said
there's an Australia (sic) Federal Police officer at the door asking about
some book purchases I'd made on terrorism, my readings on terrorism," he
said.

The student said no explanation for the interview was given and he did not
know if he had been previously listened to or watched.

"I couldn't ascertain obviously who they were or what information they had.
But considering the AFP officer was asking about my library books I've been
reading, books I'd purchased, obviously they've had access to either my
library records," he said.

Dr Wright-Neville said although other students had not been questioned, they
needed to know there was a risk.

"All students, if they're going to be studying this subject, need to be
aware that they might also be targeted by the authorities. Students have a
right to go about their study and research without that sort of interference
in their private affairs,'' he said.

The student, who converted to Islam two years ago, had been targeted because
he had a Muslim name, Dr Wright-Neville said.

"Hopefully the Muslim community won't feel they're being unnecessarily
targeted because of this. In terms of counter-terrorism we need a
co-operative relationship with the (Muslim) community. This kind of random
targeting might work against that,'' he said.

"These books were not bought under the counter in a brown paper bag. They
were books bought from university bookshops. They were scholarly
investigations into the phenomenon of terrorism. The books begin with the
idea, as did this student, that terrorism is an abhorrent form of behaviour
that we need to understand.''

The lecturer said the student was one of many to have shown interest in the
subject in recent years.

"Young people are interested in understanding this phenomenon, and he was
one of those young people, drawing on mainstream research and scholars to
see what their insights were, and he's been targeted for this reason,'' he
said.

Dr Wright-Neville said he would have been hard-pressed to get 20 students
into a terrorist class before the last four years. Now his classes were
packed.

"Hopefully students will have reason to get bored and move off to other
areas,'' he said.

A federal police spokeswoman defended the investigation saying information
they had received on the man "warranted further inquiries".

"The AFP conducts inquiries into allegations of criminal activity
irrespective of any person's ethnicity or religious beliefs," she said.

She said federal police had been meeting with Australia's Muslim
communities.

"As a result of recent events, the AFP has met with Islamic leaders across
the country to maintain ongoing communication with Muslim communities and
provide clarity surrounding the AFP's role in investigating crimes, and
provide assurance that the AFP is not prejudiced in its application of the
law," she said.

"This is part of a long-term strategy to create open channels of
communication with community groups and engage their services to provide
cultural-awareness training to AFP members."

The student was no longer considered of interest to police and no further
action would be taken, she said.

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[osint] Police raid London bomb-making factories

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 

Police raid London bomb-making factories


July 26, 2005 - 2:12PM

TheAGE

Police searched a north London flat thought to be a bomb-making factory amid
claims that two suspects in the city's bus and Tube bomb attacks are asylum
seekers who have received thousands of pounds in state welfare payments.

On another fast-moving day in Britain's biggest manhunt, police said they
were "racing against time" to prevent another terror strike.

They said two men had been arrested under anti-terrorism laws - bringing the
total in custody to five - but warned they could not rule out another
attack.

Police are still hunting for the four suspected bombers behind botched
attacks on London's transport network on July 21 that have raised fears
among residents that the city is now a firm target for Islamist militants.

On July 7, suicide bombers killed 56 people, including themselves, on three
underground railway trains and a bus.

"There will be people who know something. It is part of our duty in order to
protect the country that people come forward and give the police the
information that they can," Prime Minister Tony Blair said.

Officers raided a housing estate in north London used by at least one of the
suspected bombers.

They searched a flat dubbed "Terror tower" and "Bomb factory on ninth floor"
by newspapers as fears grew the property was used to make bombs.

Police chiefs said they were racing against time to stop any further attacks
by militants they link to al-Qaeda.

Newspapers today said one suspect had lived in a flat on the estate and had
claimed £23,000 ($A52,825) of state benefits to pay the rent over six years.

Under the headline "Bomber on Benefits", the Sun said 24-year-old Yasin
Hassan Omar - named as one of the suspects pictured in security camera
footage - helped plot the July 21 attacks while living in the flat.

It said the Home Office was checking his immigration status.

The Daily Mail said at least two of the suspects were believed to have
entered Britain as asylum seekers from East Africa and had received state
welfare payments.

Immigration was a major political battleground when Britain held national
elections in May, with many voters concerned about overcrowded public
services and housing shortages.

Michael Howard, leader of the main opposition Conservative Party, accused
Blair at the time of "pussyfooting" on immigration and said people wanted
stricter controls. Opponents accused him in turn of playing the "race card".

The four suicide bombers who carried out the July 7 attacks were all British
Muslims, three of them of Pakistani origin.

Police released more pictures of the suspects involved in the attempted July
21 attacks and gave details of the bombs.

Armed police and officers with dogs trained to sniff out explosives
patrolled the transport system and there were more security alerts in the
capital. The wail of sirens has become a regular sound on London's streets
since the attacks.

London's anti-terrorist police chief Peter Clarke said a bomb found in a
west London park was similar to those used in the botched attacks.

Police were trying to establish if the device belonged to a fifth man or if
one of the attackers had carried two bombs.

Clarke said all the bombs had been packed in the same kind of plastic food
container and hidden in dark rucksacks.

The investigation suffered a setback at the weekend when police said they
had shot a Brazilian man in error after he was mistaken for a suicide
bomber.

Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot in the head after being chased onto an
underground train by undercover police.

Three-quarters of the public thought bombings and security scares would be
part of London life for the foreseeable future, according to an opinion poll
published by the Times.

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[osint] Muslims Call Comments by WMAL Host 'Hate-Filled'

[Bruce Tefft]

 
I listen to WMAL regularly and I heard this broadcast.
I was only surprised that this politically correct city had such truth on
the air.

The problem is that Islam IS hate filled.

bh

Gee isn't it funny muslims can't recognize chopping off people's heads and
blowing up innocent people as hate.  When someone does speak out against
terrorists that is hate.  At least some people are over their denial attacks
and are waking up to who the real enemy is and speaking out.  That is what
it takes.  Evil is not destroyed by ignoring it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/25/AR2005072501
649.html

Muslims Call Comments by WMAL Host 'Hate-Filled'
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 26, 2005; Page C01

A local radio talk show host touched off complaints from an Islamic civil
rights organization yesterday after repeatedly describing Islam on the air
as "a terrorist organization" that is "at war with America."

The organization, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR), asked the station to take disciplinary action against Michael
Graham, who hosts WMAL-AM's late-morning call-in program.

Michael Graham said Islam is a "terrorist" group. (By Stephen
Salpukas) A station executive, Randall Bloomquist, said yesterday that
Graham's comments were "amped up" but justified within the context of the
program. He said the station, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co., had no
plans to reprimand Graham.

The show host touched off the flap during a discussion of the Muslim
community's response to recent acts of terrorism. Graham suggested the fault
lies with Muslims generally because religious leaders and followers haven't
done enough to condemn and root out extreme elements. "The problem is not
extremism," Graham said, according to both CAIR and the station. "The
problem is Islam." He also said, "We are at war with a terrorist
organization named Islam."

CAIR denounced the comments yesterday as "hate-filled" 
and "Islamophobic" and asked its members to contact the station's
advertisers to express their dismay.

"It's amazing," said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR's communications director. "I
talked with Mr. Bloomquist and asked him if he would reprimand someone who
used the n-word on the air. He said yes. I asked him if he would reprimand
someone who read [approvingly] from the [anti-Semitic] 'Protocols of the
Elders of Zion.' He said yes. So I asked him if he would do the same if
someone had called Islam a terroristic organization. Well, he said, it's all
about context, but he never quite explained it to me."

Added Hooper, "The First Amendment allows people to be idiots and bigots.
All you can do is embarrass people and have them defend their reputation. If
WMAL doesn't feel embarrassed and doesn't want to defend its reputation in
the face of anti-Muslim bigotry, then there's not much we can do about it."

Graham, who broadcasts locally, is one of several conservative hosts heard
on WMAL (630). The station's daily lineup includes the syndicated Rush
Limbaugh and Sean Hannity programs.

After rising slightly during the months preceding the presidential election
last year, WMAL's audience ratings have fallen precipitously. Exact ratings
for Graham's 9-11:45 a.m. time slot are unavailable, but WMAL's morning
programming, which includes part of Graham's program, are off 25 percent
since last year. The station overall has lost 41 percent of its core
25-to-54-year-old audience in the past 12 months, dropping from 158,200
individual listeners per week to 116,600.

Graham declined to comment when contacted yesterday, saying, "I'm saving all
my comments for my show. You'll just have to listen." But in his weekly
column, which will appear on WMAL's Web site today, he repeats the statement
that "Islam is a terror organization" and makes the following analogy:

"If the Boy Scouts of America had 1,000 Scout troops, and 10 of them
practiced suicide bombings, then the BSA would be considered a terrorist
organization. If the BSA refused to kick out those 10 troops, that would
make the case even stronger. If people defending terror repeatedly turned to
the Boy Scout handbook and found language that justified and defended murder
--and the scoutmasters responded by saying 'Could be' -- the Boy Scouts
would have been driven out of America long ago.

"Today, Islam has whole sects and huge mosques that preach terror. Its
theology is openly used to give the murderers their motives. Millions of its
members give these killers comfort. The question isn't how dare I call Islam
a terrorist organization, but rather why more people do not."

Bloomquist said his station had received more than 100 e-mails protesting
Graham's comments, many of them, he said, apparently generated by CAIR's
e-mails to its members. He went on to defend Graham, saying, "Remember that
this is talk radio. We don't do the dainty minuet of the newspaper editorial
page. It's not 'Washington Week in Review.' It depends o

[osint] Italian investigator says terror suspect in Germany linked to cell in Italy

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 
Italian investigator says terror suspect in Germany linked to cell in Italy
By STEPHEN GRAHAM Associated Press Writer
MUNICH, Germany
An Italian investigator told a German court Tuesday that a Munich-based
Iraqi accused of supplying money and Islamic radicals to fight in Iraq had
"close" contacts with suspects in similar trials in Italy.

Guido Salvini, an investigating magistrate from Milan, gave expert testimony
to a Munich state court about the militant group Ansar-al-Islam during
proceedings against Amin Lokman Mohamed, charged by German authorities with
membership of a terrorist organization.

Salvini's testimony drew on his questioning of two suspected members of the
organization in northern Italy. A group of suspects living in the Italian
city of Parma was visited by Mohamed and three others in March 2003, Salvini
said, and the Parma group later approached Lokman to help them send money to
Iraq.

"The contacts were close," he said. Police found Ansar-al-Islam propaganda
such as videotapes and literature in the house used by the Parma group, he
said.

Salvini said the Italian group wanted to send the money _ euro1,500
(US$1,810 at current rates), according to German prosecutors _ to a man
already in a militant training camp in Iraq.

Asked by the judge whether a suspect in Italy named Mohammed Tahir Hammid
said whether Lokman was a member of Ansar al-Islam, Salvini said Hammid
"thought Lokman ... joined this group, but wasn't sure."

German prosecutors say Mohamed collected money at mosques and homes and
arranged to bring wounded fighters from Iraq to Europe for medical
treatment. They suspect him of serving as the head of the group's Munich
cell.

Mohamed, who did not speak in court on Tuesday, has acknowledged smuggling
people in and out of Germany but denies it had anything to do with Ansar
al-Islam.

Mohamed was arrested in Munich's main train station in December 2003 and
became the first person charged under a post-Sept. 11 law that allowed
authorities here to prosecute members of foreign-based militant groups
active on German soil.

Ansar al-Islam was formed in the Kurdish parts of northern Iraq and is
believed to include Arab al-Qaida members who fled the U.S.-led invasion of
Afghanistan in late 2002. The Islamic fundamentalist group is suspected of
links to al-Qaida and is listed as a terrorist organization by the United
States and the United Nations.

Ansar al-Islam is also suspected in suicide bombings against coalition
forces in Iraq. Its bases along the Iranian-Iraqi border were bombed at the
start of the Iraq war and the group's members scattered, some to Europe. 
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[osint] CANADA: Martin dithers on protecting Canadians from terrorist threat

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 

 
Martin dithers on protecting Canadians from terrorist threat
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Toronto, WEDNESDAY 26 July 2005 - While British, American, Indian, Israeli,
Spanish, Italian and other leaders around the world confront the murderous
ideology of Islamic terrorists, the government of Canada, and Prime Minister
Paul Martin in particular, have been largely silent.
 
"While Canada has not yet been attacked by Islamic terrorists, we are the
last target on Osama Bin Laden's list. We know from CSIS that over 50
terrorist groups are operating in Canada," said Rochelle Wilner, Senior Vice
President, Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD). "Prime Minister Martin
must immediately confront the terrorists and their genocidal ideology before
Canada is attacked."
 
"It we are going to succeed against their threat of terror, no justification
must be accepted for their actions -- none whatsoever, period," added
Wilner. "When Canadians are burying their love ones following a terrorist
attack, we can predict today with near certainty that the killers will not
be Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Rastafarian. They will be Muslim and they
will have been radicalized in a mosque or Islamic community centre. That is
where investigative and security resources must be focused."
 
The CCD urges the government to take immediate steps to secure our borders
while sending a message that Canada will not become a breeding ground for
murderous Islamists. Specifically: 
 
*  Canada must take all steps necessary to shut down the 50 identified
terrorist organizations operating in Canada;
 
*  Canadians must be informed as to who these groups are and harsh penalties
enforced against who support such groups or encourage terrorism;
 
*  The government must immediately deport any non-citizen promoting or
supporting terrorism;
 
*  The government must enforce our existing anti-hate laws against those who
incite genocide against identifiable groups, whether those target groups be
Israeli, American, Jewish, or any other common targets;
 
*  Muslim religious leaders must inform would-be terrorists that no heavenly
rewards await those who slaughter unarmed civilians, and to do so without
the usual equivocation and exceptions;
 
*  Muslim religious leaders and citizens must provide information to CSIS
and the RCMP to identify those among them who are promoting a violent
agenda;
 
*  The Prime Minister must review our immigration system to ensure that
Canada does not become a safe haven for would-be terrorists;
 
*  Legislation should be implemented to allow the victims of terror to sue
governments and organizations who support them;
 
*  The government must take steps to ensure that our border is secure and
'undesirables' have no way of getting in either as foreign students, refugee
applicants or visitors;
 
*  Canada must take steps to strengthen our military capacity to fight the
global war on terror. A weak military cannot protect Canadians or play any
useful role in global security;
 
*  Canada must pass legislation similar to our Western allies to make this
country hostile to promoters of Islamic terror, especially with the new
anti-terror measures implemented by other countries that have left Canada
the destination of choice for Islamic terrorists.
 
"Prime Minister Paul Martin has an obligation to confront radical Islamists
operating in this country," added Wilner. "He must not allow political
correctness or the appeasement of domestic voting blocs to take precedence
over the lives of Canadians."
 
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For more information, contact:
 
Naresh Raghubeer
Executive Director
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[osint] So-called "expert" sees low terrorist threat to Toronto Airport

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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic
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Jul. 26, 2005. 06:16 AM 



 
  


Beefed-up police urged for airport
Deter terror, calm public, expert says
Believes Toronto likely a low target


BOB MITCHELL
STAFF REPORTER

Roaming armed police officers and dozens of sniffing dogs need to be
deployed at Pearson International Airport, an expert on aviation terrorism
says. 

Putting these measures in place not only would make passengers feel safer,
but also would send a strong message to would-be terrorists, Gunnar Kuepper
said yesterday. 

"You need to show the bad guys that you're doing something and if (they) try
anything (they're) going to get caught," said Kuepper, chief of operations
with Emergency & Disaster Management Inc. in Los Angeles, which advises
private and public organizations. 

Kuepper, who addressed a group of attorneys at the Association of Trial
Lawyers of America's annual conference at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto
yesterday, also said Pearson officials are too secretive about the airport's
security. 

While Kuepper believes Toronto is likely a low terrorist target, he said
after the conference that it was "absolutely essential" for airports such as
Pearson to have a heavy and highly visible police presence. 

Kuepper's comments come in the wake of a report in April from federal
Auditor General Sheila Fraser, who said there continues to be "serious
weaknesses" in Canadian airport security screenings post 9/11, despite
improvements in explosives detection. 

"One of the things that criminals and terrorists and suicide bombers have in
common is they don't like police because they're on a bad mission," Kuepper
said in an interview. "Police interfere with their plans. They try to avoid
police. The presence of police makes them go away from their target. 

"Look at the heavy police presence in the New York subway system since the
London bombings. People may not like it. Some people do. But it sends a
strong message to the bad guys." 

No officials with the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Peel police or the
RCMP will reveal how many officers regularly patrol Pearson's terminals. 

Connie Turner, spokeswoman for the GTAA, said Pearson has been on "increased
vigilance" since the London bombings and insisted Pearson's normal security
measures were "higher than" at other airports. 

"From our operations, very little would happen that we wouldn't be on top of
immediately," Turner said. "Our security is quite visible in the terminals.
No question about that. We have terminal officers, police, K-9 units on
regular patrols. We certainly are well staffed in terms of security at the
airport." 


  _  

`We have terminal officers, police, K-9 units on regular patrols. We are
well staffed' 

Connie Turner, GTAA spokeswoman 

  _  

However, during a 40-minute walk through the public areas of Pearson's
Terminal 1, the Star saw just two uniformed Peel police officers - one each
on the arrivals and departures level - and one dog with its handler. There
was no visible security staff in the journey from the parking area to the
terminal. 

Kuepper said he has no idea whether Pearson is safe or unsafe when it comes
to preventing terrorist attacks because airport officials won't share their
security measures and procedures with his group. 

"They keep things to themselves," Kuepper said. "We do a lot of safety,
emergency response and security audits of airports both informally and
formally, but Pearson has never been very open. I don't think they
appreciate the opportunity of having third parties looking at their
procedures and policies." 

Turner said Kuepper was correct in his assessment as far as Pearson not
sharing its security procedures. 

"We don't normally release what we do for security measures ... why would
we?" Turner said. 

Some information is public. When Terminal 1 opened in 2004, officials said
as many as 10,000 surveillance cameras had been installed as part of the
facility's state-of-the art security measures. 

As well, every piece of luggage placed on a plane is fully screened through
a multi-step scanning system that combines manual and electronic
surveillance with X-ray and bomb detection equipment. 

But Kuepper said

[osint] AZcentral: Immigrants jam English classes

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
http://www.azcentral.com/families/education/articles/0726english.html#
 
Immigrants jam English classes Adults wait in line as lawmakers push for
official language

Daniel González
The Arizona Republic
Jul. 26, 2005 12:00 AM
As momentum grows to make English the official language in Arizona and
across the country, immigrants are having a hard time getting into English
classes.

At adult education programs throughout the state, the demand for English
classes is so great that immigrants often wait months, and sometimes more
than a year and a half, to get in. The long waits hurt immigrants' ability
to get jobs and help their children in school.

Still, the state Legislature has tried to cut funding for adult education in
recent years but pushed to declare English the official language of Arizona
to encourage immigrants to learn it. 

"People are not dumb. They understand that in order to improve (in this
country) you have to speak English," said Luis Enriquez, director of adult
education and workforce development at Friendly House. 

This summer, 283 people are enrolled in eight English classes at the Phoenix
non-profit organization, Enriquez said. An additional 213 people are on a
waiting list to get in.

Next month, when the school year begins, the agency will add 13 more English
classes at five school districts around the Valley, enough to serve an
additional 2,600 people.

Six hundred people are studying English this summer through classes offered
by the Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County. About 100 more people are on
a waiting list.

Demand for English classes is even higher during the rest of the year, said
Margaret Quintana, the agency's learning center director. At times, the
agency has had as many as 500 people waiting to get into an English class,
Quintana said.

"It's easy to live your life in Arizona in Spanish, but to really succeed
you need English," Quintana said. Most immigrants understand that, she said.


Statewide, there are 36 adult education programs offering English classes.

A 2004 study by the Arizona Department of Education found that 5,009 adults
were on a waiting list to get into English classes and that an additional
5,686 were turned away. Statewide, about 18,000 adults who wanted to learn
English enrolled in classes through adult education programs.

The study identified 445,000 adults, without high school diplomas, who
didn't speak English very well, the target population for English classes.

"One of my goals has been to reduce the waiting lists," state schools
Superintendent Tom Horne said. "If people are desirous of learning English,
they should start right away. They shouldn't have to wait. It hampers people
in the job market, and (it) hampers their ability to help their children in
school."

Horne said that for two years in a row he fought off efforts by the
Legislature to reduce the $3 million the state spends on English and adult
literacy classes. The state also receives about $9 million from the federal
government to pay for English classes, he said.

Next year, he plans to ask for more money to fund English classes and for
authorization to charge fees. 

One recent morning, 21 immigrants - 19 women and two men - sat in a
classroom at Friendly House near downtown Phoenix finishing an English exam
to measure how much they had improved over the past three months. The
immigrants were from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Cuba. They spend
three hours a day learning English, Monday through Thursday. The classes are
free. 

Many said they had lived in the United States for years and only now were
getting around to learning English.

"When they first come, it's survival, feeding their families. Once they have
some stability, they say, 'OK, now I have some time to learn English,' "
said Enriquez, the adult education director.

Phoenix resident Olga Torres, 68, an immigrant from Mexico, said she waited
for two months until she got into an English class in September. 

Despite living in the United States for 35 years, she never learned English
very well. But it wasn't for a lack of desire. 

"My husband died in 1976. I had five children. I had to work to support
them, and I didn't have time to go to school," Torres said. 

She said she was trying to learn English now so she could communicate better
with her grandchildren.

Glendale resident Juana Vazquez, 35, an immigrant from Cuba, began taking
English classes three months ago. She juggles the classes between work and
raising a family. Vazquez, who owns a housekeeping franchise, is at her job
by 4 a.m. After rushing home to feed her two children, ages 12 and 6, she is
at class by 9 a.m. When class ends at noon, she goes home for a few hours
and then is back at work until 10 or 10:30 p.m. 

She hopes learning English will lead to a job that pays better.

"If you come here, you need to learn English because this is not our
country," Vazquez said.

Phoenix resident Jorge Noriega, 24, who was born in Texas but grew up in
Mex

[osint] Blair vows to give "not one inch" to terrorists

[Bruce Tefft]

 
He already has by letting all of the terrorists live in the UK.

Bruce


http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-0
7-26T134241Z_01_SCH145033_RTRUKOC_0_SECURITY-BRITAIN.xml
 
Blair vows to give 'not one inch' to terrorists Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:42 PM BST



By Paul Majendie

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday much of the
world had dropped its guard after the initial shock of the September 11
attacks and urged that "not one inch" be given to terrorists.

With police intensifying their hunt for four would-be bombers who tried to
attack London's transport system last week, Blair also sought agreement from
political leaders on tougher anti-terror legislation.

On Tuesday, police said they might have found material for making explosives
at a house connected to one of the suspects wanted over attempts to set off
bombs on three underground trains and a bus on July 21. They also seized a
car.

Officials said two of the suspects being hunted had lived legally in the
country for 10 years. Yasin Hassan Omar came from Somalia and Muktar
Said-Ibrahim from Eritrea.

The failed bombings came exactly two weeks after suspected Islamist
militants killed themselves and 52 other people in a similar attack on the
capital's transport system.

Blair said: "Not one inch should we give to these people ... we shouldn't
even allow them a vestige of an excuse for what they do."

He told his monthly news conference: "September 11 for me was a wake-up
call. Do you know what I think? A lot of the world woke up for a short time
and then turned over and went back to sleep again."

Blair also insisted his decision to go to war in Iraq offered no
justification for Islamist militants' actions.

BIGGEST MANHUNT

Police, eager for Londoners to use their eyes and ears to help in the
country's biggest ever manhunt, believe the would-be bombers may have gone
to ground in a safe house or are being harboured by sympathisers.

Former Scotland Yard police commander Roy Ramm said: "There is quite a
degree of planning gone into these attacks and probably escape routes and
safe houses form part of those plans.

"There are four men out there who have already shown their determination to
detonate bombs. The police will want to get to them very quickly," Ramm told
Sky News.

The four men who carried out the July 7 attacks -- which officials have
linked to al Qaeda -- were all British Muslims, three of them of Pakistani
origin.

The investigation suffered a setback at the weekend when police said they
had shot a Brazilian man in error after he was mistaken for a suicide
bomber.

Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot in the head after being chased onto an
underground train by undercover police.

Blair, eager to maintain political consensus on any new anti-terror
legislation, called in opposition leaders on Tuesday to plot the best way
forward.

But Conservative leader Michael Howard and his Liberal Democrat counterpart
Charles Kennedy voiced reservations about police demands to hold suspects
for up to three months without charge.

All parties are keen to allow phone tap evidence to be admissible in court
but security agencies fear that could blow the cover of their intelligence
sources. 

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[osint] The FBI's internal security

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050725-115357-5141r


Shaun Waterman
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Issue brief: The FBI's internal security By Shaun Waterman UPI Homeland and
National Security Editor

WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- When FBI Director Robert Mueller appears before
the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, there is one issue some
congressional staffers are working hard to make sure he is asked about: the
bureau's internal security.
A new report from the Justice Department's Inspector General Glen Fine is
expected to examine claims about breakdowns in the vetting process for some
employees. And a recent report on the bureau-run Terrorist Screening Center
revealed that there had been some seepage of classified data to unsecured
systems or people without proper clearances.
At the same time the bureau faces enormous pressure to recruit people from
non-traditional backgrounds (classically the FBI recruited cops and
accountants), especially those with the language skills needed in the
bureau's work against Middle Eastern and Central-South Asian terrorists.

The man responsible to Mueller for squaring this circle is Charles Phalen: a
24-year veteran intelligence official, who joined the federal service in
1981, and spent the 1990's in a series of senior internal security posts at
the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office.
Phalen recently gave United Press International a wide-ranging interview
about his work.
As on recruitment, the FBI faces countervailing pressures on the question of
information sharing. The bureau leadership is committed to working closely
with state and local officials through its Joint Terrorism Task Forces. But
it also has to confront genuine counter-intelligence concerns about the
possible penetration of such partners.
"The FBI is faced with a broader set of decision points (on information
sharing) than the intelligence community," Phalen said, because even the
unclassified data the bureau has is of use to a potential adversary. "You
don't want to get hung up on the idea that this is just an issue of national
security information," he said, "There's a market out there for almost
everything we know."

The FBI commitment to information sharing means it needs systems that
operate precisely on the interface between the classified and unclassified
-- like the cleared FBI analyst at the Terrorist Screening Center, with
access to classified terror watchlist data, talking to an uncleared cop at a
traffic stop.

Phalen acknowledges that when people are working in that way, slippage will
occur.
"That happens occasionally," he said of accidental security breaches like
those identified in the inspector general's report on the terrorist
screening center.
Such breaches are an issue, he says, but that's where training comes in.
"One of the keys to this thing is clear guidelines to let people know when
they're crossing that threshold."
"These sorts of mistakes are more manageable and correctable than someone
out to destroy us."
Nonetheless, Phalen says the bureau faces big challenges on information
sharing issues because of the way its classified systems -- in common with
almost everyone else's -- are currently structured.
"Our databases contain materials at different levels of classification.
You have to have what's called 'system-high' access -- you have to be
cleared for the highest level information on the system" to get access, he
told UPI.
The desired end state -- Phalen calls it the "Holy Grail of information
sharing" -- is the so-called Multi-Security Level solution: an integrated
complex of linked databases in which information is tagged so that, in the
words of one contractor, "the data knows who is allowed to see it."
Any analyst-user can log on to the system and manipulate all the data that
they have permission to access in any way they want. If their analysis
reveals relationships to data they are not entitled to see, the system can
even tell them that, so that a more highly privileged user can be found to
check the results.
"It is doable," Phalen said, "but it is very complex."
On the recruitment issue, Phalen faces the dual challenge of convincing a
sometime skeptical intelligence community that the FBI's clearance process
is up to snuff, while simultaneously ensuring that the bureau can recruit
the agents and contractors with non-traditional backgrounds it needs.
Phalen says the bureau has used polygraphs in its applicant background
checks since 1994, but it was a one off test for first time applicants.
The Webster Commission recommended "expanding its use in the staff
reinvestigation program and for others who have routine access to FBI
national security information," Phalen said.
The background check process has been reviewed, he told UPI, and some
changes are planned in the way the bureau looks into the histories of its
prospective staff.
"We're reconfiguring to make it more manageable," Phalen said of the
p

[osint] Caught on Tape - the suicidal otherworldliness of ACLU-style civil libertarianism

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/lowry/lowry20050726075
5.asp
 

July 26, 2005, 7:55 a.m.
Caught on Tape
The suicidal otherworldliness of ACLU-style civil libertarianism.


The four would-be suicide bombers of the botched July 21 attacks in London
have a big problem. They were caught on videotape. Their images have been
broadcast in Britain and around the world, making their apprehension
astronomically more likely than if they had escaped undetected.

For this, we have security cameras to thank. London has half a million of
them. According to one estimate, a person wandering around London will be
filmed 300 times in a day. The city is a pioneer of a trend toward video
surveillance that is also sweeping the United States and provoking howls
from civil libertarians whose internal clocks are set to make a reference to
1984 every 15 minutes or so. Given the choice, apparently, they would prefer
not to have the video of the July 21 bombers, which is an indication of the
suicidal otherworldliness of ACLU-style civil libertarianism.

Opponents of video cameras unroll various arguments about the cameras. They
complain that the cameras are intrusive and a violation of privacy. But how
is it possible to violate someone's privacy in a park or a subway car?
People have a right to privacy only where they have an expectation of
privacy, and that is not in public places where things they do are
susceptible to viewing by dozens of pairs of eyes. No one should expect
pristine privacy while walking in a subway tunnel, let alone while he is
running away after having attempted to kill and maim people.

If they can't brandish the Fourth Amendment, civil libertarians get down to
practical policing and claim that cameras don't really do anything to
prevent crime; they only occasionally help solve crime after the fact. Even
if this were true, solving one terror attack alone - and therefore perhaps
unraveling networks that would attack in the future - makes the cameras
worth it. 

Cameras won't deter suicide bombers - what will? - but they can tamp down
other criminal activity. Cameras in Britain are credited with discouraging
the IRA bombing campaign in the 1990s. On a less serious front, San
Francisco - one of many jurisdictions, including New York, Houston and New
Jersey, that have cameras in their train systems - saw vandalism drastically
decline on subway cars after the installation of surveillance cameras.

Some cities have turned to cameras in high-crime areas, mounting them to
watch activities in parks and on dangerous streets. The Los Angeles Times
reported in October 2004, "Earlier this year, police began monitoring seven
cameras around MacArthur Park in the city's Westlake district, watching in
amazement as crime plummeted, gangs, drug dealers and pimps disappeared, and
families with children began returning to the 40-acre expanse in one of the
city's poorest areas." Chicago has used cameras to make drug busts in real
time.

Then there is the last resort of civil libertarians. When no real harm can
be demonstrated, they always discern a subtle "chilling effect." "When
citizens are being watched by the authorities," says Barry Steinhardt of the
American Civil Liberties Union, "they are more self-conscious and less
freewheeling." But urban areas, where the cameras are proliferating, are not
notably bastions of inhibited behavior. City Journal's Heather Mac Donald,
who is nation's foremost critic of the excesses of the ACLU, writes, "The
only people whom public cameras inhibit are criminals; they liberate the
law-abiding public." When they move a camera out of a troubled neighborhood,
Chicago police now get complaints from neighbors, who want pimps and drug
dealers to be decidedly inhibited.

The priority of a certain class of civil libertarians is apparently to
protect Americans from nonexistent threats to their liberty at the expense
of protecting them from real threats to their safety. The New York Civil
Liberties Union is considering a federal lawsuit over New York's new policy
of randomly searching the backpacks of subway passengers. Only if terrorists
can get on mass-transit systems without any risk of their bags being
searched or their images being recorded will they finally rest easy.

- Rich Lowry is author of Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.

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[osint] Italy's post-7/7 predicament

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 http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=12290  

Italy's post-7/7 predicament


The London attacks have complicated the withdrawal from Iraq even further
because the battle over the timing of the Italian troops' departure now
incorporates a new variable: its perception in terms of an unacceptable
yielding to terrorist threats.

By Federico Bordonaro for PINR (26/07/05)


On 18 July, a group called Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades - which claimed
responsibility for the 7 July attacks on London's public transportation
system - threatened Italy via the internet. The statement warned that Rome
should withdraw its troops from Iraq within one month if it wanted to avoid
a terrorist attack similar to the ones executed in Madrid and London. The
authors of the message also added that this would be Italy's last warning.

The al-Masri Brigades already threatened Italy on 29 August 2004, likewise
demanding the withdrawal of Italy's military contingent from Iraq. This
explicit terrorist threat (which evokes the possibility of using chemical
weapons against Italian cities) comes at a time of feverish government
activity to counter Islamist terror cells on Italian territory, and in the
midst of a very confused political battle over new anti-terror measures
proposed by Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu.


Impact of the London bombings on Italy


When London was attacked on 7 July, Italy's main political parties already
had complex stances on the ongoing conflict in Iraq. Italy is currently in
the throes of a process of political disintegration, taking place inside
both its right-of-center and its left-of-center alliances. Although the
parties that make up the alliances are divided on many issues, the future of
Italy's presence in Iraq is emerging as a decisive one, at least in the
foreign policy sphere, while the measures regarding terrorism and
immigration appear to be the most urgent and contentious items on Rome's
domestic policy agenda.

The withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq had been planned well before the
7 July attacks. But although almost everyone in the Italian parliament
agreed on the necessity of debating the technical and political details
involved with military withdrawal, the views on how and when to perform it
remained very different. The right-of-center majority often stated that the
date of Italy's withdrawal was to be agreed upon with the US and the newly
elected Iraqi government. Basically, this position means waiting until the
Iraqi government can count on the new Iraqi forces to maintain law and order
in the country; at that point, Baghdad would presumably ask foreign powers
to leave its territory.

However, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi recently (even before 7
July) hinted at the possibility of a gradual withdrawal to be initiated this
fall. The problem is that Italy is heading toward an important year;
elections are scheduled for spring 2006 and in June of that year there will
be elections for a new head of state. Accordingly, calculations about the
most politically convenient posture on the Iraq issue are permanently on the
forefront of Italy's fragmented political landscape.

The left-of-center opposition, for its part, is showing even more acute
signs of disunion. As the Left Democrats of the former Communist Party
compete with the Margherita party (a left-oriented centrist Christian
Democrat party) to conquer the moderate votes, they are internally torn by
the split between pacifist hardliners on one hand and more pro-Atlanticist
pragmatists on the other. The former incline toward a common anti-war front
with the neo-communist and green parties; the latter are already working to
revive dialogue with the US and its allies after its (expected) win in next
year's political elections. Romano Prodi, the opposition's leadership
candidate for next year's political vote, is therefore trying to find a
viable compromise between the two "souls" of the Italian Left. Even if such
a task is accomplished, it will not be sufficient to assure a truly common
foreign policy for the left-of-center federation.

As far as Italian domestic policy is concerned, one of the right-of-center
ruling coalition's member parties, the Northern League (a federalist and
sometimes separatist party), is attacking Pisanu because it considers his
proposals for the enhancement of intelligence and precautionary measures to
be inadequate, while pushing its own agenda for a far stricter policy on
immigration. This issue of immigration has triggered an intense debate over
the Schengen Treaty - i.e. over the free movement of citizens within the EU
- in reaction to France's decision to suspend the treaty as a means of more
effectively countering terrorist cell activities. The Northern League,
already engaged in a head-on attack against the euro since the French and
Dutch rejection of the EU's Constitutional Treaty, is - as expected - now
pushing for suspension of the Schengen Treaty, thus contributing to the
ruling coa

[osint] Police in Indian city crack down on 'Osama' mobile phone video clips

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 
Police in Indian city crack down on 'Osama' mobile phone video clips
By JOY BANERJEE Associated Press Writer
LUCKNOW, India
Police in a northern Indian city are cracking down on mobile phone video
messages showing Osama bin Laden, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and grisly
killings by American troops and hostage-takers in Iraq, an officer said
Tuesday.

The two clips, which run for a total of 57 seconds, have been circulating in
Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh state. They show edited portions of videos
purportedly released by bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist group, Senior
Superintendent of Police Prabhat C. Meena said by telephone from Kanpur.

"Orders have been issued to start random checking of cell phones. If anyone
is found carrying the Osama MMS, he will be charged with sedition," Meena
said.

He added that the MMS, or multimedia message, could be used to win
sympathizers for al-Qaida and spread religious hatred.

"We are baffled at the origin of this Osama clip and are trying to locate
its source," Meena said.

Kanpur, an industrial hub 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the state
capital, Lucknow, has witnessed rioting between India's majority Hindus and
minority Muslims. About 40 percent of Kanpur's 2.9 million people are
Muslim.

The city also hosts the headquarters of the outlawed Students Islamic
Movement of India, a militant Muslim organization that Indian officials say
has ties with terror groups in the insurgency-wracked northern region of
Kashmir.

Meena said the first clip shows militants riding on a tank and firing into
the air, followed by pictures of Osama bin Laden firing a gun and motivating
his followers to take part in "jihad" or holy war. It ends with pictures of
the Sept. 11 attacks accompanied by the message: "Thousands killed, al-Qaida
strikes."

Meena said the second clip shows images purportedly of an American soldier
slitting the throat of an Iraqi man and then severing his head, as well as
suspected militants shooting an American woman in the head from point-blank
range.

Sanjay Dutta, a pharmaceutical company employee, said he had received the
clips and quickly deleted them.

"It did not have the senders' number or any identity showing from where it
came," he said.

Last week, police in Kanpur arrested an insurance company manager and four
colleagues for allegedly using posters of bin Laden with Kalashnikov
automatic rifles to motivate workers. 
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[osint] Authorities arrest Muslims with NYC Maps, Video

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Deported!  They will be back.

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Authorities Arrest Men With NYC Maps, VideoFive Men Detained in New Jersey,
Set to Be Deported
- Five Egyptian men with maps of the New York City subway system and video
of New York landmarks have been arrested by the Joint Terrorism Task Force
in Newark, N.J., ABC News has learned. 
FBI and law enforcement officials told ABC News the five men -- four illegal
immigrants and one law enforcement fugitive -- were arrested Sunday night
following a tip to the Newark Police Department. In addition to the subway
maps and video, the men had train schedules and $8,000 in $20 and $50 bills.

The men were identified as: Karim Ahmed Abdel Latif Ahmed, 21; his brother
Mahoud Ahmed Abdel Latif Ahmed, 19; Ahmed Mohamed Atta, 30; Mohamed Ibrahim
Gaber, 34, and Mohamed Palat Anwar Jozain. When Newark authorities converged
at the group's location at 246 Ferry St., Karim Ahmed answered the door and
agreed to allow police to enter. Officers said they noticed the maps, and
video cameras and Karim and his brother agreed to a search. 
Karim said he had the maps because he had a new job as a street vendor.
Initially, Karim said no one else was in the apartment, but police came upon
the three other men upon further search. 
FBI officials said the men have no known link to a terror network but noted
that none of them could adequately explain the items they had in their
possession, the large amount of money or their reasons for being in the
United States. Mohamed Ibrahim Gaber has been a fugitive since he jumped
ship from an Egyptian flagged freighter in September 2000. 
The men, all of whom claimed to be unemployed civil or chemical engineers,
are set to be deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 
Reported by ABC News' Richard Esposito. 


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[osint] Is Toronto Prepared for a Terrorist Attack?

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Is Toronto Prepared for a Terrorist Attack?

 

By JOE FRIESEN AND KATIE ROOK 

Saturday, July 16, 2005 Page A11
  Key
 


 
 

At the end of the day, I don't know how you can prevent all this from
happening. There's things you can do reasonably, and people are trying to do
the best they can, but it's never enough and it never will be enough in this
new world, this new norm that we live in.'

Julian Fantino, Ontario commissioner of emergency management

TTC

Even before the suicide attacks on London's Underground last week, Toronto's
subway was routinely referred to as the likeliest target for terrorists,
should they strike in Canada. 

 

 

Since Sept. 11, 2001, the city has undertaken several studies to improve
safety underground, but still lags behind major cities like London, New York
and Washington.

There have been additional installations of closed-circuit security cameras,
which now number more than 800. Rick Ducharme, chief general manager of the
TTC, said the effectiveness of the cameras is due more to their location,
rather than how many are in place. He said that not all of the cameras are
watched all the time, but all of them are taped. 

Unlike the London Underground, however, the cameras are not sophisticated
enough to automatically detect unusual movements and pedestrian patterns. 

Mr. Ducharme said the system relies on its customers and employees to stay
alert for anything suspicious. The TTC employs 70 special constables, but
only 15 or 20 would be on duty at a peak time, he said. 

To augment their presence, uniformed Toronto Police officers are encouraged
by their supervisors to use the TTC as much as possible when travelling to
appointments.

Metal garbage cans, which disappeared long ago in the U.K. after the IRA
used them to conceal bombs, will soon be phased out in favour of clear
plastic bags for trash and recycling.

PEARSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

The Greater Toronto Airports Authority won't comment on security changes
since Sept. 11, 2001, for fear of providing the wrong people with
information, says Connie Turner, a spokeswoman for the agency.

Ms. Turner said, however, that emergency procedures are reviewed regularly. 

After last week's bombings in London, canine-unit patrols were increased at
Pearson and there was greater vigilance about unattended baggage.

The most significant change to airport security began in April of 2002 when
the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority took over all preboarding
baggage screening from airlines. 

With an operating budget of $1.9-billion over five years, the agency hired
800 additional personnel for the federally funded program, spokeswoman Renée
Fairweather said. 

Every screening officer must complete a 180-hour training course that covers
topics ranging from customer service to the use of technology. 

Although employees are contracted from various security firms, their
performance is rated according to national standards. 

Transport Canada conducts criminal background checks in concert with the
RCMP and CSIS, spokeswoman Julie Iannetta said.

The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority also introduced
explosive-detection trace machines at airports across the country to test
passengers' carry-on baggage. Items are swabbed, identifying the presence of
an explosive substance within seconds. 

Since 2002, the agency claims to have recovered more than one million
prohibited items -- ranging from tweezers to guns, knives and other weapons
used in martial arts, Ms. Fairweather said. 

Both the federal and the Toronto authorities are able to conduct random spot
checks of people who have already passed through security, including
passengers, airport employees, vendors and concessionaires.

According to Gunnar Kuepper, an aviation-terrorism expert from Los Angeles
who attended this week's disaster-management conference in Toronto, access
to tarmac and airfield sites has been significantly curtailed at airports
around the world since 9/11. 

At airports in the United Kingdom and the United States, for example,
delivery trucks cannot enter the premises without registered identification
and freight. 

All deliveries to Pearson International Airport are made to one site where
they are repackaged and delivered throughout the airport, Ms. Turner 

[osint] UPI Issue brief: The FBI's internal security

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Issue brief: The FBI's internal security
By Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor

WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- When FBI Director Robert Mueller appears
before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, there is one issue some
congressional staffers are working hard to make sure he is asked about:
the bureau's internal security.
A new report from the Justice Department's Inspector General Glen Fine
is expected to examine claims about breakdowns in the vetting process
for some employees. And a recent report on the bureau-run Terrorist
Screening Center revealed that there had been some seepage of classified
data to unsecured systems or people without proper clearances.
At the same time the bureau faces enormous pressure to recruit people
from non-traditional backgrounds (classically the FBI recruited cops and
accountants), especially those with the language skills needed in the
bureau's work against Middle Eastern and Central-South Asian terrorists.

The man responsible to Mueller for squaring this circle is Charles
Phalen: a 24-year veteran intelligence official, who joined the federal
service in 1981, and spent the 1990's in a series of senior internal
security posts at the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office.
Phalen recently gave United Press International a wide-ranging interview
about his work. 
As on recruitment, the FBI faces countervailing pressures on the
question of information sharing. The bureau leadership is committed to
working closely with state and local officials through its Joint
Terrorism Task Forces. But it also has to confront genuine
counter-intelligence concerns about the possible penetration of such
partners.
"The FBI is faced with a broader set of decision points (on information
sharing) than the intelligence community," Phalen said, because even the
unclassified data the bureau has is of use to a potential adversary.
"You don't want to get hung up on the idea that this is just an issue of
national security information," he said, "There's a market out there for
almost everything we know."
The FBI commitment to information sharing means it needs systems that
operate precisely on the interface between the classified and
unclassified -- like the cleared FBI analyst at the Terrorist Screening
Center, with access to classified terror watchlist data, talking to an
uncleared cop at a traffic stop. 
Phalen acknowledges that when people are working in that way, slippage
will occur.
"That happens occasionally," he said of accidental security breaches
like those identified in the inspector general's report on the terrorist
screening center.
Such breaches are an issue, he says, but that's where training comes in.
"One of the keys to this thing is clear guidelines to let people know
when they're crossing that threshold."
"These sorts of mistakes are more manageable and correctable than
someone out to destroy us."
Nonetheless, Phalen says the bureau faces big challenges on information
sharing issues because of the way its classified systems -- in common
with almost everyone else's -- are currently structured. 
"Our databases contain materials at different levels of classification.
You have to have what's called 'system-high' access -- you have to be
cleared for the highest level information on the system" to get access,
he told UPI.
The desired end state -- Phalen calls it the "Holy Grail of information
sharing" -- is the so-called Multi-Security Level solution: an
integrated complex of linked databases in which information is tagged so
that, in the words of one contractor, "the data knows who is allowed to
see it."
Any analyst-user can log on to the system and manipulate all the data
that they have permission to access in any way they want. If their
analysis reveals relationships to data they are not entitled to see, the
system can even tell them that, so that a more highly privileged user
can be found to check the results.
"It is doable," Phalen said, "but it is very complex."
On the recruitment issue, Phalen faces the dual challenge of convincing
a sometime skeptical intelligence community that the FBI's clearance
process is up to snuff, while simultaneously ensuring that the bureau
can recruit the agents and contractors with non-traditional backgrounds
it needs.
Phalen says the bureau has used polygraphs in its applicant background
checks since 1994, but it was a one off test for first time applicants.
The Webster Commission recommended "expanding its use in t

[osint] FW: ACLU investigates random train searches

[Bruce Tefft]

 
ACLU investigates random train searches
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN Associated Press Writer
STAMFORD, Conn.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut has begun an investigation
into a new practice of random searches on Metro-North trains, a spokesman
said Monday.

The searches began last week after the latest attacks on London's transit
system. The Connecticut ACLU joins its affiliates in New York and New Jersey
in raising concerns about the practice.

"We believe it opens up the door to profiling and potential discrimination,"
said Roger Vann, executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut. "We're
launching an investigation into the situation in Connecticut similar to what
our affiliates have done in New York and New Jersey. Whether or not that
will result in a lawsuit will depend on what we find."

The ACLU will send monitors out later this week to a few train stations to
interview commuters, Vann said. They are also taking complaints by e-mail.
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Metropolitan Transit Authority police are conducting random searches of
packages, briefcases and bags as part of anti-terrorism efforts. Passengers
can refuse the search, but Metro-North can then refuse to allow those
passengers to board.

"The ACLU's concerns have been noted and we believe the searches are legal
and something our customers want," said Tom Kelly, MTA spokesman. "The vast,
vast majority think if in the slightest way it's going to improve security
they're all for it. The customers understand this is the day and age we're
living in."

Metro-North trains carry 110,000 riders daily from Connecticut into New York
on one of the nation's busiest rail lines. The railroad has not received any
complaints so far about the searches, said Marjorie Anders, a Metro-North
spokeswoman.

While the ACLU was raising concerns about random searches, three state
lawmakers sent a letter to state officials Monday seeking a meeting to
discuss security measures being taken on the trains. State Sens. Andrew
McDonald, D-Stamford, Bill Finch, D-Bridgeport, and Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, are
suggesting the use of closed-circuit cameras in stations and other measures.

State police troopers have been patrolling trains after the first set of
bombings in London.

Connecticut Public Safety Commissioner Leonard Boyle said last week that
police in Connecticut plan to focus on identifying suspicious behavior
rather than conducting random searches.

Jim Cameron, vice chairman of Connecticut Rail Commuter Council, said last
week he doesn't think commuters will mind the extra scrutiny.

Searches were already underway on trains, buses and ferries into and out of
New York City on Friday.

Security on ferries had already been increased in the wake of the first
round of bombings in London. Baggage is screened and cars are searched
before they're allowed on board. 
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[osint] Years of experience, polished intelligence, clear methods make Israeli security forces proficient

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 
Years of experience, polished intelligence, clear methods make Israeli
security forces proficient at preventing suicide attacks
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM
Israel has become proficient at disarming suicide bombers, allowing
attackers to be captured alive and lead security forces to their main target
_ the mastermind of the strike.

The most recent capture was over the weekend, when high-tech sensors on a
security fence alerted forces to the fact that someone had infiltrated
Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Hours later, the would-be Palestinian suicide bomber was found in near
isolated agricultural community with five kilograms (11 pounds) of
explosives strapped to his waist. Security forces instructed the teenage
attacker to remove the bomb belt and surrender. He complied and was captured
alive.

"They decided that first of all he has to be caught," said Zeev Schiff, a
military analyst for the Israeli daily Haaretz. "Had he resisted or made a
wrong move, they would have killed him."

Israel's experience has been painfully acquired _ more than 100 Palestinian
suicide bombers have killed hundreds over the past five years.

Like most security forces, Israeli police and soldiers have clear
instructions to shoot to kill if all else fails, and Israeli
counterterrorism experts said London's police were not out of line Friday
when they shot a Brazilian electrician suspected of being a bomber.

Jean Charles de Menezes was wearing a padded jacket and acted in a way that
raised suspicions of plainclothes officers, who followed him from an
apartment bloc that was under surveillance. The electrician was shot eight
times when he ran into a subway car.

"They (the British) are nervous, they are frightened ... this leads to more
mistakes," Schiff said. "Unfortunately, they will learn."

Israel has suffered suicide bomb attacks in public places and buses for more
than a decade. During the current conflict, which started in late 2000, 505
people have been killed in 120 Palestinian suicide bombings.

As a result, security precautions can be seen everywhere. Restaurants are
required to have armed guards checking patrons at the entrance, main bus
stations and shopping malls feature airport-style walk-through metal
detectors and X-ray machines.

For decades, Israeli citizens have been on the lookout for suspicious
objects that might be bombs, and on a given day a main street in an Israeli
city is likely to be closed while police check a package someone left
behind.

Despite years of such experience, Israel has made mistakes similar to the
shooting in London, but such errors are rare now that other methods are in
place to prevent bombers from reaching their target.

"There are no good solutions to this dilemma," said Boaz Ganor, a
counterterrorism expert. "So long as this phenomenon of suicide attacks is
being spread all over the world ... such mistakes are imminent."

Suicide attacks are the method of choice for global terrorist groups because
of their effectiveness, Ganor said. Although just 0.5 percent of Palestinian
attacks during the past five years have been suicide bombings, they have
caused about half of Israeli casualties, he said.

Preventing a bomber from blowing up once he has reached his target is almost
impossible. There are no known cases of Israeli security forces preventing
an attack by shooting dead a bomber.

On occasion, security guards _ and even civilians _ have wrestled bombers to
the ground, but their success was due to the fact that the explosives didn't
detonate. Once, a robot handed a captured bomber a pair of scissors that he
used to cut an explosives belt off his body. The explosives were later
neutralized by sappers.

Instead, Israel has shifted its focus to preventing attackers from ever
reaching their targets.

A security barrier with high-tech sensors alerts forces to infiltrators and
serves as a physical obstacle that makes it difficult for Palestinians to
get into Israel from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The West Bank barrier is
only one-third complete, but Israeli security experts credit it with
stopping many would-be bombers.

Targeted killings by the air force and elite combat units eliminated a many
leaders of violent Palestinian groups. Also, pinpoint arrest raids have
filled Israeli prisons with handlers and masterminds who are privy to plans,
helping security agents to prevent future attacks.

The key to all of it is good intelligence, especially human intelligence,
and cooperation between different branches of security, an area in which
Israel has reached unprecedented levels of success, said Eran Lehrman,
formerly a member of Israel's intelligence services.

Currently, there are also international efforts to develop technology that
would make it possible to either detect a bomber from a distance or
immobilize the attacker immediately without killing him, Ganor said.

"The problem today is that when you try to paralyze someone, you either have
to be clos

[osint] Hispanic, Muslim groups call on Colorado congressman to resign

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Hispanic, Muslim groups call on Colorado congressman to resign 

July 25, 2005 9:29 PM 
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DENVER Hispanic and Muslim groups say Colorado Congressman Tom 
Tancredo (tan-KRAY'-doh) should resign. About 200 people 
demonstrated against him at the state capitol in Denver.

They accuse Tancredo of embarrassing Colorado by suggesting that 
Americans bomb Islamic holy sites if terrorists launch a nuclear 
attack on the United States. They also criticized the G-O-P 
lawmaker's staunch advocacy of tougher immigration controls.

Tancredo's spokesman says the four-term congressman declined to 
comment on the rally, but has no intention of apologizing or 
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[osint] Federal Authorities Detain Muslim Charity Director

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 Federal Authorities Detain Muslim Charity Director

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Federal officials have raided the northern 
Virginia office of a Saudi-based charity and detained its director.
The Muslim World League office in Falls Church had been under 
scrutiny for possible terrorist ties. It also was searched in 2002 
during a series of raids of Muslim organizations in the area.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent Allan Doody says 
authorities have seized computers, photos and immigration documents.
The charity's director, 44-year-old Abdullah Alnoshan, has been 
charged with immigration fraud. The Saudi citizen had been granted a 
work visa to do public relations and religious work.
A Sudanese citizen has also been charged in the case. Khalid 
Fadlalla works at the organization's New York office.

Federal agencies have been investigating whether the Muslim World 
League has been knowingly or unknowingly funding Osama bin Laden.
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[osint] Outside View: The Muslim mind is on fire

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Outside View: The Muslim mind is on fire

By Youssef M. Ibrahim Jul 26, 2005, 5:11 GMT
 


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (UPI) -- The world of Islam is on fire. 
Indeed the Muslim mind is on fire. Above all the West is now ready 
to take both of them on.

The latest reliable report confirm that on average 33 Iraqis die 
every day, executed by Iraqis and foreign jihadis and suicide 
bombers, not by U.S. or British soldiers. In fact, fewer than ever 
U.S. or British soldiers are dying since the invasion more than two 
years ago. Instead we now watch on television hundreds of innocent 
Iraqis lying without limbs, bleeding in the streets dead or wounded 
for life. If this is jihad, someone got his religious education 
completely upside down. 

Palestine is on fire, too, with Palestinian armed groups fighting 
one another -- Hamas against Fatah and all against the Palestinian 
Authority. All have rendered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas 
impotent and have diminished the world`s respect and sympathy for 
Palestinian sufferings.

A couple of weeks ago, London was on fire as Pakistani and other 
Muslims with British citizenship blew up tube stations in the name 
of Islam. Al-Qaida in Europe or one of its franchises proclaimed 
proudly the killing of 54 and wounding 700 innocent citizens was 
done to "avenge Islam" and Muslims. 

Madrid was on fire too last year, when Muslim jihadis blew up train 
stations killing 160 people and wounding a few thousands.
The excuse in all the above cases was the war in Iraq, but let us 
not forget that in September 2001, long before Iraq, Osama bin Laden 
proudly announced he ordered the killing of some 3,000 in the United 
States, in the name of avenging Islam. Let us not forget the killing 
began a long time before the invasion of Iraq. 

Indeed, jihadis have been killing for a decade in the name of Islam. 
They killed innocent tourists and natives in Morocco and Egypt, in 
Africa, in Indonesia and in Yemen, all done in the name of Islam by 
Muslims who say they are better than all other Muslims. They killed 
in India, in Thailand and are now talk of killing in Germany and 
Denmark and so on. There were attacks with bombs that killed scores 
inside Shiite and Sunni mosques, inside churches and inside 
synagogues in Turkey and Tunisia, with Muslim preachers saying it is 
OK to kill Jews and Christians -- the so called infidels.

Above all it is the Muslim mind that is on fire.
The Muslim fundamentalist who attacked the Dutch film director Theo 
Van Gogh in the Netherlands, stabbed him more than 23 times then cut 
his throat. He recently proudly proclaimed at his trial: "I did it 
because my religion - Islam -- dictated it and I would do it again 
if were free." Which preacher told this guy this is Islam? That 
preacher should be in jail with him.

Do the cowardly jihadis who recruit suicide bombers really think 
they will force the U.S. Army and British troops out of Iraq by 
killing hundreds of innocent Iraqis? U.S. troops now have bases and 
operate in Iraq but also from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab 
Emirates, Bahrain and Oman?

The only accomplishment of jihadis is that now they have aroused the 
great "Western Tiger." There was a time when the United States and 
Europe welcomed Arab and Muslim immigrants, visitors and students, 
with open arms. London even allowed all dissidents escaping their 
countries to preach against those countries under the guise of 
political refugees.
Well, that is all over now. Time has become for the big Western 
vengeance.
Visas for Arab and Muslim young men will be impossible to get for 
the United States and Western Europe. Those working there, will be 
expelled if they are illegal and harassed even if their papers are 
in order.

Airlines will have to right to refuse boarding to passengers if 
their names even resemble names on a prohibited list on all flights 
heading to Europe and the United States.
What is more important to remember is this: When the West did unite 
after World War II to beat communism, the long Cold War began 
without pity. They took no prisoners. They all stood together, from 
the United States to Norway, from Britain to Spain, from Belgium to 
Switzerland. And they did bring down the biggest empire. Communism 
collapsed.

I fear those naïve Muslims who think they are beating the West have 
now achieved their worst crime of all. The West is now going to war 
against not only Muslims, but, sadly Islam as a religion.
In this new cold and hot war, car bombs and suicide bombers here and 
there will be no match for the arsenal those Westerners are putting 
together - an arsenal of laws, intelligence pooling, surveillance by 
satellites, armies of special forces, and indeed allies inside the 
Arab world who are tired of having their lives disrupted by demented 
so-called jihadis or those bearded preachers who under the

[osint] Sweeping changes to protect Sydney

[Bruce Tefft]

 

Sweeping changes to protect Sydney


By Andrew Clennell and Alexandra Smith
July 26, 2005

Sydney Morning Herald

Commuters could have their bags randomly searched, bomb-sniffing dogs could
patrol stations and closed-circuit television could be expanded across the
city under drastic measures planned to protect Sydney from a terrorist
attack.

The Premier, Bob Carr, yesterday revealed that the State Government was
preparing to introduce legislation to allow police to randomly search bags
at train stations and on public transport.

But Mr Carr immediately ruled out regular "systematic searching of bags",
saying this would happen only in the event of a heightened threat of a
terrorist attack.

"There is a civil liberties concern, of course," Mr Carr said.

"I acknowledge that, but London has demonstrated that the risk is real, and
I would think that people would agree that your civil liberty not to have
your bag searched is outweighed by my right not to be blown up when I travel
on public transport."

Mr Carr said it would be unrealistic to have widespread bag searches during
peak hours. "It is a needle in a haystack, but if there is a rise in the
threat level and the police have got a presence at a station, there's
someone there with a heavy backpack and there are wires sticking out of it,
I don't think it's an unreasonable thing that it be searched."

Mr Carr said 25 bomb dogs used by the police could be deployed on trains.
"Not one of these tools - closed-circuit TV or bomb dogs or random searches
of bags - is going to remove all the risk, but taken together they increase
the armoury that our police may well need," Mr Carr told 2UE.

As Mr Carr detailed the proposed changes, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover
Moore - known for her years of campaigning for civil liberties - admitted
she had had a rethink on the use of closed-circuit television.

In a clear ideological shift, Councillor Moore, has scheduled a meeting with
the Police Minister, Carl Scully, to discuss expanding the city's
closed-circuit television network to plug gaps.

"Times have changed," she admitted. "In the past, the compelling reasons for
closed-circuit television haven't been there for me," Cr Moore said.

"With heightened risk of terrorism, it is time to rethink current
arrangements."

But Cr Moore denied her support for the expansion of closed-circuit
television was a change of heart, instead insisting that the effectiveness
of the technology in other cities such as Perth had influenced her thinking.

The City of Sydney has about 50 CCTV cameras spread across Chinatown,
Circular Quay, Belmore Park at Haymarket, Cook and Phillip Park, George
Street and the city's retail strip. There are two in North Sydney but none
in Parramatta.

The Opposition Leader, John Brogden, said random bag checks should be dumped
in favour of greater use of "bomb dogs" on public transport.

"It would be less obtrusive . the concept of stopping a couple of hundred
people while checking their bags, whilst being disruptive, won't even be as
effective as using a dog," Mr Brogden said.

The move by Mr Carr follows a decision last week by New York authorities to
start random bag searches on railway networks in response to the London
bombings.

 



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[osint] Student claims he was targeted by AFP

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=56346

Student claims he was targeted by AFP

17:59 AEST Tue Jul 26 2005

AAP
A Melbourne university student specialising in martyrdom and 
terrorism says he was unfairly targeted by federal police because he 
has a Muslim name.

The student, who is known only by his first name of Abraham, 
converted to Islam three years ago and has been studying for an 
honours degree in politics at Monash University.
He was visited at home last week by an Australian Federal Police 
(AFP) officer who quizzed him about books he purchased and borrowed 
from the library as part of his studies.
Abraham said the books were on the recommended reading list for his 
course and dozens of other students were studying the same subjects.
He believes he has been targeted because his name suggests he has a 
non-English speaking background.

"I think it's unjustified and unfair," he told ABC radio.
 "It also sends a message unfortunately to the Muslim community that 
if they're dealing with the Australian Federal Police authorities 
that possibly they could be targeted, they could be harassed for any 
information.
"And quite ironic is my studies are involved in obviously preventing 
these actions from occurring and they're drawing a linkage with that 
and saying 'okay, well you might be a terrorist'."
But the AFP denied it targeted Abraham because of his name and said 
it only questioned him after receiving information from the public.
"The AFP can confirm they spoke to a man in Melbourne last week as a 
result of information received from the public," an AFP spokeswoman 
said.
"The AFP assessed that the information received warranted further 
inquiries.

"The man is not considered of interest to police and no further 
action will be taken."
The spokeswoman said the AFP would continue to respond to 
information received from the public but would not show prejudice 
due to a person's ethnicity or religion.
"The AFP has and will continue to respond to information received 
from the public and where appropriate undertake inquiries in 
relation to allegations of criminal activities," she said.
"The AFP conducts inquiries into allegations of criminal activities 
irrespective of any person's ethnicity or religious beliefs."

Abraham's lecturer David Wright-Neville said he has warned his other 
students they could also face scrutiny by security agencies.
"It's happened to one, and I think that all students, if they're 
going to be studying this subject, need to be made aware that based 
on the experience of last week that they might also be targeted by 
the authorities who might be curious about what they're doing," he 
said.
 









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[osint] The myth of the 'moderate' Muslim

[Bruce Tefft]

 


   

Wed, July 20, 2005 

The myth of the 'moderate' Muslim

By SALIM MANSUR
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/London/Salim_Mansur/2005/07/20/pf-1
138956.html


Since at least Sept. 11, 2001, the non-Muslim world at large has been
waiting for that segment of the Muslim population designated as "moderate"
to resolutely denounce terrorists who, in defiling its faith-tradition, have
subverted Islam into a cult of death. 

The expectation there is a large, identifiable segment of "moderate" Muslims
is a transposition to the Muslim world of the idea of "moderation" in
politics and religion that sustains democracies. 

It is also a natural expectation that the sort of extremism associated with
"jihadi" (war-mongering) politics of Muslim terrorism and suicide bombings
would generate a counter-offensive by "moderate" Muslims, repudiating such
violence and isolating extremists politically and socially, while supporting
the global war on terror. 

But this has not happened. On the contrary, as atrocities mount, Muslims
generally have remained -- their private anguish aside --publicly
complacent, and their religious leaders divided on what should be the proper
Islamic response. 

There has been no spontaneous or organized demonstration of Muslims across
the Arab-Muslim world, nor in European or North American cities where
Muslims reside in increasing numbers, in support of victims of such terror
and in unqualified condemnation of extremists who exploit Islam for their
criminal purposes. 

Dissension among Muslim religious leaders on whether to condemn terrorism
and suicide bombings -- and the absence of any effort by the Muslim majority
to express its disgust with extremism -- invariably lead to ques-tioning the
nature of Islam by non-Muslims. 

Instead of witnessing "moderate" Muslims resolutely taking back their
faith-tradition from extremists and murderers, the world has grown numb to
endless apologetics and polemics explaining away "jihadi" politics as a
misguided, though inexcusable, response to the wrongs inflicted upon Muslims
by the West. 

The truth is there does not exist an identifiable body of Muslims,
substantive in number or an outright majority, who could be described as
"moderate" by their repudiation of Muslim extremists. 

Violence has been an integral part of Muslim history, irrespective of
whether it is sanctioned by Islam, and Muslims who unhesitatingly use
violence to advance their political ambitions have created a climate within
their faith-culture that any Muslim who questions such practice is then
deemed apostate and subject to harm. 

Consequently, what might pass for "moderate" Muslims, the large number of
Muslims unaccounted for as to what they think, in practical terms constitute
a forest within which extremists are incubated, nurtured, given ideological
and material support, and to which they return for sanctuary. 

Moreover, since there is little experience of democracy within the
Arab-Muslim world, the culture of "moderation" remains practically
non-existent. 

Though the example of Saudi Arabia -- where "mutawwa," or religious police,
herd Muslims to their daily religious obligations -- might be considered
untypical, it provides the model of authoritarian practice of faith and
politics in Muslim societies where dissent is frowned upon and where
opposition runs the risk of being branded as seditious. 

But there are Muslims who, at great risks to themselves, unapologetically
condemn the culture of violence Muslims have bred for extremists among them
to exploit. 

They work alone, or in small groups of like-minded Muslims, despite being
maligned and ostracized by fellow Muslims, to dissect and expose Muslim
extremism to the world at large while striving against immense difficulties
to keep faith in the ideals of Islam. 

Their effort, irrespective of any effect in advancing Muslim reformation,
remains real, while "moderate" Muslims being nowhere to be found confirm
their existence is a myth until proven otherwise. 




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[osint] The Muslim American Society: Not Moderate

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http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1122381726.shtml

The Muslim American Society: Not Moderate
Mary Madigan
According to CNN the Muslim American Society is launching an anti-
terrorism campaign. 

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A coalition of U.S.-based Muslim groups launched 
an intensified anti-terrorism campaign Monday using community groups 
to persuade young people their religion provides no basis for 
violence. 

The president of the Muslim American Society, Esam Omeish 
[link, .ed], told reporters at a news conference that his group 
rejects attacks such as those recently in Britain and Egypt, and 
will "deny terrorists any religious, ideological or political 
legitimacy." 
He said the attacks bring the spotlight back to prevention, and that 
such efforts must go beyond surveillance and intelligence by law 
enforcement. 

The Muslim groups said they would intensify an effort among 
community groups such as religious schools, youth centers and Boy 
Scouts and Girl Scouts of America programs. 
Responding to questions, Omeish and representatives of other 
organizations said they knew of no al Qaeda or Muslim terror groups 
in the United States. 
They haven't looked in the mirror for a while. According to an 
article in the Chicago Tribune, published in September, 2004, 
Omeish's youth outreach group, the Muslim American Society is a 
front for the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. 

>From the Chicago Tribune: 

In recent months Akef, the international Brotherhood leader, 
repeatedly has praised Palestinian and Iraqi suicide bombers, called 
for the destruction of Israel and asserted that the United States 
has no proof that Al Qaeda was to blame for the Sept. 11 attacks .. 
In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim 
American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the 
nation's major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 
1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members. 
..if the topic of terrorism were raised, leaders were told to say 
that they were against terrorism but that jihad was among a 
Muslim's "divine legal rights" to be used to defend himself and his 
people and to spread Islam. 

But MAS leaders say those documents and others obtained by the 
Tribune are either outdated or do not accurately reflect the views 
of the group's leaders. 

MAS describes itself as a "charitable, religious, social, cultural 
and educational not-for-profit organization." It has headquarters in 
Alexandria, Va., and 53 chapters nationwide, including one in 
Bridgeview, across the street from the mosque there. 
Mr. Omeish "rejects" terrorist attacks in Egypt while neglecting to 
mention that the Brotherhood was banned in 1954 for advocating 
violence to turn Egypt into an Islamic state. The Muslim Brotherhood 
was reponsible for the assasination of Anwar Sadat. 

Omeish also doesn't mention that a member of the Brotherhood, "the 
blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman was linked to the World Trade Center 
bombing in February 1993 and the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane, 
and was arrested and convicted for his role in a plot to destroy NYC 
landmarks. 
The Muslim Brotherhood supports the terrorist "insurgents" in Iraq. 
The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood calls itself Hamas. 
Funded generously by oil money, the Muslim Brotherhood has become a 
powerful political force in Europe. In Europe, they also pretend to 
be a non-violent organization. 

Like their protege, bin Laden, the Brotherhood hopes to establish a 
worldwide Caliphate ruled by apartheid Shariah laws. 
In America, the Muslim Brotherhood calls itself the Muslim American 
Society and they claim to oppose violent terrorism. They call 
themselves a moderate youth outreach group (with a history of 
assasinations, terrorism and a logo of swords added for extra 
peace!) 

Of course they expect us to believe them. Why shouldn't they, CNN 
does. So does Harvard. 
In his "anti-terrorism" speech, the Muslim American Society's Mahdi 
Bray said of the American government: 

"Rather than spending all their energies in terms of recruiting 
spies and snitchers, they need to spend more time and more energy 
engaging the authentic Muslim leadership" in the United States 
Mr. Bray, when you find one of those authentic Muslim leaders, 
please let us know.








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[osint] Muslim Police arrest dating couples

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 

Police arrest dating couples


>From correspondents in Jakarta

July 25, 2005 

From: Agence France-Presse 

 

SHARIA police in the Indonesian province of Aceh have rounded up about three
dozen unmarried women and men caught dating in public places on the weekend,
a report said today.

"All the violators were arrested on Saturday night because by 10pm they were
still going out together in quiet places," the Jakarta Post newspaper quoted
an unnamed sharia police officer in Bireuen district as saying. 

Those arrested included 16 unmarried couples and four unmarried women
believed to be prostitutes, the officer said. 

Aceh province is gradually implementing Sharia law under a broad autonomy
package granted by the central government in 2001 to curb separatist
sentiment there.

Despite being the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia does not impose
Sharia law in regions other than Aceh. 

Bireuen district was last month also the first in Aceh to implement public
flogging of gamblers. 

The Sharia officer said all those arrested in Saturday's round-up were later
released after they signed documents in which they promised not to commit
the same violation in the future. 

 



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[osint] Truth Telling on Zimbabwe

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/opinion/26tue2.html

EDITORIAL

Truth Telling on Zimbabwe
•   

Published: July 26, 2005

Anna Tibaijuka, the highest-ranking African woman at the United 
Nations, is not one of the boys. Maybe that's why she did not mince 
her words about the horrors going on in Zimbabwe that Africa's male 
political establishment seems so afraid to talk about. Late last 
month, Secretary General Kofi Annan sent Mrs. Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian 
economist who is executive director of the U.N. agency that looks 
out for the interests of slum dwellers, to investigate the mass 
destruction of slums and shantytowns by Robert Mugabe's dictatorial 
regime. 
 

She has now reported that the forcible clearances, which began in 
May and have cost 700,000 people their homes or livelihoods, were 
carried out in an "indiscriminate and unjustified manner" 
with "indifference to human suffering." The damage from 
this "virtual state of emergency," she reported, will take years to 
undo. In the name of the United Nations, she demanded that the 
razing of homes and businesses be immediately halted, that the 
campaign's architects be prosecuted and that the victims of 
this "manmade disaster" be compensated. It is winter in the Southern 
Hemisphere, and hundreds of thousands of uprooted people, many of 
them women and children, are shivering in tents.

Mr. Mugabe, a tyrant, is increasingly out of touch with reality in 
the style of Stalin and Mao. He is starving and killing his own 
people, and the unwillingness of some of Africa's most prestigious 
leaders, like Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Benjamin 
Mkapa of Tanzania, to challenge him publicly is especially 
disturbing at a time when these same leaders prate on about a 
commitment to accountable governments and peer review of one 
another. Mrs. Tibaijuka's unflinching honesty shames their silence.








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[osint] Did a fifth bomber lose nerve and dump bomb?

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1707430,00.html

July 25, 2005 

Did a fifth bomber lose nerve and dump bomb?
BY DANIEL MCGRORY

 

POLICE fear that there may have been a fifth bomber who failed to 
carry out his suicide mission last Thursday after the discovery of a 
suspect package in bushes near Wormwood Scrubs prison in West 
London. 
The package, found on Saturday morning, appeared to be packed with 
explosives, nails and bolts, similar to the device found at Warren 
Street. Police carried out a series of controlled explosions on it. 

 
The four fugitives whose bombs failed to explode must know they 
cannot stay in one place for long. Their names are known to police, 
who are trying to find out if these are the men's real identities. 
Many identification documents and other evidence had been cut into 
pieces but were carried in the rucksacks. Detectives are also 
studying telephone calls believed to link this cell with the four 
who blew themselves up on July 7. 

It is not clear if these are direct calls between the two, but the 
hope is that they may reveal the identity of other key figures such 
as the bombmaker and the man who co-ordinated that operation. 
Detectives want to establish if this gang can lay their hands on 
more explosives. Police scientists are also trying to identify the 
chemical signature of the explosive left in the rucksacks and match 
it to bombs used on July 7. 
FBI specialists have offered their expertise amid warnings these 
chemicals degrade and may be dangerously unstable. The bombers must 
realise this, so unless they have access to another supply there is 
an urgent need for them to use what may be left. 

Police chiefs do not expect this gang to try to flee the country, 
even though all are believed to be of East African origin. One 
senior source told The Times: "These men seem determined to die. 
They are likely to have been picked for their stronger resolve than 
the four men who died on July 7." 

All four are likely to have gone their own separate ways last 
Thursday and none has been in touch with their families. A number of 
addresses are under surveillance, including those of other members 
of their cell who played supporting roles. 

Police are investigating claims that both sets of bombers met at the 
National Whitewater Rafting Centre at Frongoch, near Bala, North 
Wales. It is thought that at least two from the bungled attack met 
Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, who died in the first 
bombings. Police believe Khan organised the trip as a training 
course. 
•  Aldgate station, shut since July 7, reopens today, bringing a 
full service on the Metropolitan Line. 

The Circle line remains closed and the District is suspended between 
Edgware Road and High Street Kensington. Replacement bus services 
are in place on parts of the Piccadilly Line. 

A shuttle service will operate every 15 minutes on the Hammersmith & 
City Line between Hammersmith and Paddington.

 







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[osint] Checkpoints Are Thought to Have Hastened 2 Egypt Blasts

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/international/africa/26egypt.html?
th&emc=th


Checkpoints Are Thought to Have Hastened 2 Egypt Blasts
 
Egyptian Interior Ministry
The police released photos of five Pakistani men wanted for 
questioning, but officials said no evidence linked them to the 
attack. Mohamed Ekhto, left, Rashid Ali, Tasadaa Hassan, Mohamed 
Anwar and Mohamed Aref. 

By MARK LANDLER and GREG MYRE
Published: July 26, 2005
SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt, July 25 - Egyptian officials, giving their 
first detailed account of a deadly terrorist strike at this Red Sea 
resort, said Monday that all three explosions were suicide bombings 
and suggested that police checkpoints may have forced two of the 
bombers to set off their explosives early, before reaching targets 
packed with Western tourists.
 
As a result, most of the victims of the bombings on Saturday were 
Egyptians. Of the 64 people who were killed, and at least 44 were 
from Egypt, said the governor of southern Sinai, Mustafa Afifi. 
As many as 17 foreigners were killed, most of them Europeans. One 
American was among the dead, according to the United States Embassy 
in Egypt, and news reports identified her as Kristina Miller, 27, of 
Las Vegas, who was vacationing here with her British boyfriend. The 
nationalities of three of the dead have not been determined, though 
they are believed to be Egyptian, the governor said. "What's obvious 
is that they wanted to attack tourism," Mr. Afifi said at a news 
conference here.
A senior security official, speaking on condition of anonymity 
because of policy restrictions, said the police believed that the 
bombers drove to Sharm el Sheik on remote mountain roads in two 
Isuzu pickup trucks. The main coastal roads in and out of Sharm el 
Sheik have many police checkpoints.
"The preparation and execution were local," the security official 
said. "But perhaps the planning had foreign elements."
The growing evidence that the bombings were aimed primarily at 
foreign visitors complicates the task of Egyptian officials, who 
worry about damage to the country's thriving tourist trade. A 
machine-gun attack on European tourists in 1997 at Luxor, on the 
Nile River, killed 62 people and scared away visitors for several 
years.
"This is international terrorism that has no religion, ethnicity or 
values," Mr. Afifi said. "They are trying to kill innocent people 
and ruin the livelihoods of the people here."
As the Egyptians broadened their search, the police circulated 
photographs at the Sharm el Sheik airport and elsewhere of five 
Pakistani men who arrived in Cairo about a month ago and disappeared 
a few days later.
The police want to question the men, though Egyptian security 
officials, including the security official in Sharm el Sheik, 
emphasized that there was no evidence that the men had come here 
from Cairo or that they were linked to the bombings.
While the three bombings appear to have been well planned, only one 
seems to have hit its target.
The police contend that the first bombing, in which a small pickup 
truck exploded in the middle of a wide street outside the Old 
Market, was actually intended for a nearby hotel filled with 
European guests.
Three to five minutes later, a second bomber crashed a similar 
pickup truck into the lobby of his intended target, the Ghazala 
Gardens hotel, and detonated his explosives, destroying much of the 
front of the building, which was fully booked, mostly with Europeans.
The last of the three explosions, about three minutes after the 
second blast, was detonated by a bomber on foot in a parking lot, 
and killed relatively few people. But less than 50 yards away is a 
pedestrian promenade lined with bars and restaurants. It was teeming 
with Westerners when the blast occurred around 1 a.m., because 
tourists come out late after the intense heat of the day lessens.
The security official investigating the case said one person carried 
out each bombing, and he expressed confidence that all three bombers 
had been killed. He also said he thought they were Egyptian. Other 
officials and some witnesses have previously said they thought that 
one or more of the bombers may have escaped. The investigator said 
it was possible that the three unidentified bodies could be those of 
the bombers.
In the case of the bombing at the market, the police had established 
a checkpoint at the end of a one-way street, effectively blocking 
the bomber's path to the nearby Iberotel hotel, which they said they 
believed had been his destination. These so-called ambush 
checkpoints are a permanent part of Sharm el Sheik's antiterrorism 
security.
The Iberotel is similar to the Ghazala Gardens, with a lobby close 
to the road, though each hotel has guards and fixed barriers, as is 
the case with virtually every hotel in town. The Iberotel and the 
Ghazala were packed with Western tourists.
 
The bomber was driving through the market en route to the hotel and 
probably stopped when he saw

[osint] Court Sentences Killer of Dutch Filmmaker

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Netherlands-Van-
Gogh.html

Court Sentences Killer of Dutch Filmmaker



By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 26, 2005
Filed at 5:11 a.m. ET
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- A Dutch court sentenced the confessed 
killer of a Dutch filmmaker to life imprisonment Tuesday, handing 
down the harshest sentence possible for a murder that stunned the 
country, heightened ethnic tensions and raised concerns about 
homegrown Islamic terrorism.
Mohammed Bouyeri, 27, had mounted no defense at his two-day trial 
earlier this month for the slaying of Theo Van Gogh on Nov. 2, whom 
he accused of insulting Islam, and told the court he would do it 
again if given the chance.
Presiding judge Udo Willem Bentinck said life was the only fitting 
punishment for a crime that sought to undermine Dutch democracy and 
the political system.
Bouyeri, wearing a black and white checkered headscarf, showed no 
emotion as he shook his lawyer's hand following the verdict. He had 
earlier told the court he had intended to die in the action and 
become a martyr for his faith.
Bentinck said the three-judge panel had concluded there was no 
possibility for Bouyeri to return to society, citing his lack of 
remorse and the unlikelihood he would ever change his radical views.






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[osint] Terrorism and the Random Search

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/opinion/26tue1.html?th&emc=th

EDITORIAL
Terrorism and the Random Search


Published: July 26, 2005
London's bombings continue to echo throughout the urban world. In 
New York City, commuters have been facing random searches of 
backpacks, duffel bags and briefcases by police officers who are 
trying to thwart a potential terrorist attack. The extra 
precautions, originally planned to continue for a few weeks, have 
already drawn complaints from some civil libertarians. 
 

The searches must be done in an evenhanded manner. They must also be 
done for far longer than a few weeks. 

Travelers have long since gotten used to extensive searches before 
they board airplanes, and they should be relieved to see security 
measures on the subways and commuter trains as well. The New York 
City Police Department seems to have taken some pains to make sure 
that people's constitutional rights are respected. It has, to its 
credit, issued a directive that while people who refuse to have 
their belongings examined can be stopped from riding the subways, no 
one can be arrested simply for leaving and not allowing a search. 
The police officers must be careful not to give the impression that 
every rider who looks Arab or South Asian is automatically a subject 
of suspicion. They will naturally choose to search the bags of those 
people who appear suspicious, like those wearing bulky clothes in 
warm weather. But those who are selected simply because they are 
carrying packages should be chosen in a way that does not raise 
fears of racial profiling - by, for example, searching every 5th or 
12th person, with the exact sequence chosen at random.

Finding a way to treat people fairly and still pursue any real 
threat is a particularly difficult and important task in a city as 
diverse as New York. The last thing the city or the Police 
Department needs is a shooting like the one in London last week, 
when officers misjudged the situation and gunned down a Brazilian 
immigrant who had nothing to do with that city's bombings.
Making sure that the searches and other security measures are 
continuing and widespread may be harder than keeping them 
constitutional. New York City has doubled the number of officers 
patrolling the subway system since the London bombings on July 7, at 
a cost of about $1.9 million a week in overtime. That is a national 
defense burden that Washington should be ready to shoulder quickly, 
not only for New York, but for every large mass transit system in an 
area that is judged a likely terrorist target.

Protecting the New York subways - and subways in Washington, Atlanta 
and other cities - against terrorists is a vital national interest. 
Congress has been favoring pork over risk in giving the states money 
for homeland defense, but it can now show that it takes the lesson 
of London seriously by making more money available for this weak 
link in the nation's defenses. Michael Chertoff, the homeland 
security secretary - who, in a recent unfortunate quotation, 
appeared to dismiss the federal government's duty to protect subway 
riders - must make this an urgent priority. 






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[osint] Security Forces of Palestinians Are Found Unfit

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/international/middleeast/26mideast.
html?th&emc=th

Security Forces of Palestinians Are Found Unfit

By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: July 26, 2005
JERUSALEM, July 25 - The security forces of the Palestinian 
Authority are divided, weak, overstaffed, badly motivated and 
underarmed, and more attention must be paid to building up 
institutions rather than personalities, says the first independent 
survey of the complicated Palestinian security environment since the 
death of Yasir Arafat.
 

The survey, a copy of which was provided to The New York Times by 
the authors a day before publication, was prepared in close 
coordination with Lt. Gen. William E. Ward, the American-appointed 
coordinator of the effort to overhaul the chaotic Palestinian 
security apparatus, and the Palestinian Authority. It has been 
reviewed by senior American and Palestinian officials, including 
those in the office of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
It is an internationally supported effort to analyze the current 
deficiencies of the Palestinian security forces while suggesting a 
long-term program of improvement to help guide foreign donors and 
the Palestinians themselves.
The report also represents an effort to plan Palestinian security 
cooperation with Israel before, during and after the Israeli pullout 
of its settlers from the Gaza Strip, scheduled to begin in mid-
August. General Ward, who is to testify on Tuesday before the House 
Appropriations Committee in Washington, is the international 
coordinator for the security side of the pullout.
The report sees the biggest risks to a successful Israeli 
disengagement coming from rocket or mortar attacks carried out by 
Islamic Jihad or other smaller, local militant groups that are not 
invested in Palestinian politics; from the risk of Israeli settler 
incursions intended "to provoke a violent Palestinian reaction" and 
pull in the Israeli Army; and from the continuing lack of clarity 
about the Israeli Army's intentions.
Continuing violence against Israelis by Palestinian militants in 
Gaza could also prompt the Israeli Army to move into Palestinian 
areas to create a wide buffer zone before the pullout begins, with a 
likelihood of fierce clashes, civilian casualties and a collapse of 
effective coordination between the two sides.
The 83-page report, "Palestinian Security Assessment," was prepared 
by a Washington-based group called Strategic Assessments Initiative, 
which has worked in other hot spots like Kosovo, East Timor and 
Macedonia to provide security analysis and negotiating advice to aid 
conflict resolution.
The study was financed by the Dutch and Canadian governments, and it 
was made a part of the coordination mandate given to General Ward at 
an international conference in London in March, said Jarat Chopra, 
who heads the group's Jerusalem office.
Mr. Chopra, who teaches international law at Brown University and 
has worked with the Palestinian Authority in the past, said in an 
interview on Monday that his team of security and political experts 
had been in daily contact with General Ward's team and central 
Palestinian players like Nasser Youssef, the interior minister. 
Israeli officials have been interviewed for source material and 
assessments but have not seen the report, Mr. Chopra said.
Asked whether General Ward was in general agreement with the 
report's conclusions, Mr. Chopra said, "We haven't heard of many 
contradictions." The report should not be viewed as representing 
absolute truth, he said, adding, "We're working in a confused 
environment, a moving target, and it's the best we could do under 
the circumstances."
The essential problem for the Palestinian Authority, the report 
says, is that its security forces were established on "an ad hoc 
basis without statutory support and in isolation of wider reforms," 
a lasting legacy of Mr. Arafat's policy of duplication and promoting 
rivalry within his organization.
The security forces in Gaza are somewhat stronger than those in the 
West Bank, but suffer from a continuing lack of coordination, the 
report says. "The critical gap is in command and control," Mr. 
Chopra said. "There's a blurring between state actors and non-state 
actors, and that's very difficult from the military point of view."
Despite recent changes by Mr. Abbas, centralizing most forces under 
Mr. Youssef, that formal structure does not reflect the realities of 
power, the report indicates. 


For example, former chiefs of preventive security like Jibril Rajoub 
and Mahmoud Dahlan, who have no line authority over the security 
forces now, have powerful influence over them and play an important 
security coordination role with Israel. The current chief of 
preventive security, Gen. Rashid Abu Shabak, is considered a Dahlan 
loyalist with weak ties to Mr. Youssef, and divisions between the 
West Bank and Gaza are deep. 
 

There are also largely unintegrated forces like General 
Intelli

[osint] NYPD studies London bombings for lessons

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8709083/

NYPD studies London bombings for lessons

Explosives expert dispatched to U.K.; police contacting chemical 
suppliers


NEW YORK - Scrambling to prevent a U.S. version of the recent terror 
attacks in London, the New York Police Department dispatched its own 
explosives expert to Britain to study the suicide bombings, 
officials said.

The department also has contacted chemical suppliers and other 
potential commercial sources for suspected bomb components in the 
New York city area and asked them to contact investigators if they 
notice anything suspicious, officials said Monday.
Investigators in London have reportedly speculated that bombers in 
the July 7 attacks used TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, a highly 
unstable explosive made from commercially available chemicals such 
as acid, acetone and peroxide.

Traces of TATP, also used by shoe bomber Richard Reid in his failed 
2001 attempt to blow up an airplane, were found in the apartment of 
Egyptian biochemist Magdy el-Nashar in raids at the northern city of 
Leeds, home of three of the four suicide bombers.

'Detailed analysis'

An NYPD detective with explosives training recently returned to New 
York "with a detailed analysis of the bomb-making techniques used in 
London," said Michael Sheehan, deputy commissioner of 
counterterrorism at the nation's largest police department.

The investigator, whose name was not released, regularly 
examines "bomb methodologies that are used around the world" for a 
special police unit that monitors businesses that could become 
inadvertent suppliers for terrorists, Sheehan said.

Sheehan said the department has conducted hundreds of security 
assessments of businesses around the city, advising them to use more 
video surveillance, better lighting and more guards.






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[osint] Apology of 'pigs' rejected

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Apology of 'pigs' rejected

>From correspondents in Rio de Janeiro
July 26, 2005 
From: Agence France-Presse 
 
THE family of a Brazilian electrician shot dead by London police who 
mistook him for a suicide bombing suspect has rejected the apologies 
of British authorities and is considering filing a lawsuit against 
them, a family member said.
"We cannot accept (the apologies)," Patricia Silva y Vivian Menezes, 
a cousin of deceased 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes, told 
Brazil's Globo News television from London. 
"They're pigs. 
"They shoot first and kill an innocent person then they say sorry." 
Ms Menezes, who lived with Mr Menezes in his London flat, said his 
immediate family was planning to sue the British Government for the 
electrician's wrongful death. 
Another cousin, Alex Alves Pereira, who shared the same flat, 
identified Mr Menezes at the morgue after he had been shot eight 
times in the head at Stockwell Underground station after being 
chased by plainclothes police. 

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday that Britain 
was "desperately sorry" for the death of the Brazilian, whom police 
mistook for a suspected suicide bomber and who had refused to obey 
instructions. 
"It's all over for me," the victim's father, Matosinho Otoni da 
Silva, 66, told the news program. 
"I hope the police officers will be punished because they killed an 
innocent person. I cannot forgive them at all." 
The mother, Maria Otoni, who was hospitalised with a nervous 
breakdown after she received the news, said her son had had a 
premonition all last week: 
"He was afraid something bad was going to happen to him," she said. 
Mr Menezes's home town of Gonzaga, in Brazil's south-eastern Minais 
Gerais state, held a funeral march and observed a minute of silence 
for him yesterday, bringing the city of 6000 to a virtual 
standstill. 
"Terrorism: means killing an innocent person," one of the signs held 
up by a mourner in the procession said. 
Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim urged Britain to launch an 
investigation into the killing after meeting British counterpart 
Jack Straw in London. 
"We expect a full investigation," Mr Amorim told BBC radio 
yesterday, adding that his Government was "shocked and perplexed" by 
the fatal shooting of Mr Menezes. 
"The investigation should be thorough and I had reassurances in that 
respect.
Mr Menezes had been living legally in Britain for three years, 
according to his family. 









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[osint] 5th Man in Britain Attacks May Be at Large

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Britain-
Bombings.html


5th Man in Britain Attacks May Be at Large 

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: July 26, 2005
Filed at 5:46 a.m. ET

LONDON (AP) -- British police Monday identified two of four men 
believed responsible for last week's botched transit bombings and 
said an explosive found in a park was like those used in the 
attempted attacks, raising fears a fifth bomber was on the loose.
London's police chief said the force was ''racing against time'' to 
find the bombers, who fled three subway trains and a bus when their 
devices failed to fully detonate. Those bombs and the one found 
abandoned Saturday all were made using clear plastic food-storage 
containers put into dark-colored bags or backpacks.

At a televised press conference, Peter Clarke, head of the 
Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist squad, held up one of the white-
lidded, 1.65-gallon containers -- called a Delta 6250 -- and urged 
any shopkeeper who had sold five or more of them to contact police.
Earlier, Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for the killing of a 
Brazilian electrician mistaken for a terrorist as officials 
confirmed that undercover police shot him eight times -- one in the 
shoulder, seven in the head. Blair also urged Britons to come forth 
with information on the fugitive bombers.
Police identified two of the suspects as Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, and 
Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, but did 
not give their nationalities.

Authorities also released new closed-circuit images of the four 
suspects and gave details of their movements, recounting how one 
bolted from a subway station pursued by passengers, while another 
jumped through a subway window and fled down the tracks.
Armed officers raided a London apartment that Said -- suspected of 
trying to bomb a bus in east London on Thursday -- was believed to 
have visited recently. Forensic officers in white overalls searched 
the apartment in Curtis House, a concrete high-rise in the city's 
northern suburbs.

Resident Sammy Jones, 33, said she thought she recognized a man who 
visited the building as Said. She said he stayed with an African 
named George who lived in a ninth-floor apartment. Jones said two 
men of Somali appearance also visited the apartment.
''They used to come in at all hours of the night,'' she said.
She said a few weeks earlier she had seen George and the man she 
thought was Said filling an elevator with small brown cardboard 
boxes. When she asked what was in them, they replied ''wallpaper 
stripper.''
Metropolitan Police also said Monday they had arrested two people on 
suspicion of terrorism in the area but not at the raided address. 
Three other suspects are already being questioned at a high-security 
London police station ''on suspicion of the commission, instigation 
or preparation of acts of terrorism'' in connection with the July 21 
attacks.

On Sunday, police destroyed a package found by a passerby in bushes 
in a west London park not far from the scene of the attempted 
bombing at Shepherd's Bush station. Clarke said forensic examination 
showed ''clear similarities'' between the device and the four bombs 
found Thursday.

Those attacks came two weeks after bombings that killed 52 people 
and four suspected suicide bombers on three subway trains and a 
double-decker bus.
At the press conference, Clarke described how the four bombers fled 
when they realized they had failed.
At Oval station in south London, the suspect was ''chased from the 
station by extraordinarily brave members of the public who tried to 
detain him.'' Giving them the slip, the man ran into the Brixton 
neighborhood, where police later found his ''New York'' sweatshirt.
At Shepherd's Bush, the suspect -- Omar -- fled the train, probably 
by jumping through a window and running along the tracks, Clarke 
said.
Police Commissioner Ian Blair said police were mounting ''an 
absolutely brilliant operation, and it is, of course, racing against 
time.'' But as the investigation rolled on, police faced growing 
criticism over the killing of the unarmed Brazilian mistaken for a 
potential bomber.
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, shot dead Friday inside a 
subway carriage in front of horrified passengers, said they were 
considering legal action against the police.
''They have to pay for that in many ways, because if they do not, 
they are going to kill many people,'' the victim's cousin, Alex 
Pereira, told British Broadcasting Corp. television.
As a coroner's inquest opened Monday into the shooting, Blair 
expressed ''sorrow and deep sympathy'' over the death but said 
police were working ''in very, very difficult circumstances.''
''Had the circumstances been different and had this turned out to be 
a terrorist, and they had failed to take that action, they would 
have been criticized the other way,'' the prime minister said.
The police commissioner has indicated he believed al-Qaida

[osint] Searching for Footprints: Bombings Link Doubted

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/international/europe/25qaeda.html

NEWS ANALYSIS
Searching for Footprints: Bombings Link Doubted
 

By ELAINE SCIOLINO

and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: July 25, 2005
LONDON, July 24 - As Britain and Egypt struggle to absorb the 
effects of terrorist attacks on their soil and determine who was 
responsible, both countries are asking the same two questions: Were 
the attacks linked, and was Al Qaeda involved?
 On the face of it, there are a number of similarities: two well-
coordinated attacks, carried out in scattered locations nearly 
simultaneously by suicide bombers.

In both cases, this line of thinking goes, the bombers struck 
targets that represented support for Western or American policies 
they saw as anti-Muslim. 
Indeed, London could have been chosen at least in part because of 
Britain's unflinching support of the American-led war in Iraq and 
the military campaign against the Iraqi insurgency. Sharm el Sheik 
is Egypt's leading tourist resort as well as a symbol of the halting 
American-led process to make peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
But several senior intelligence and counterterrorism officials based 
in Europe and the Middle East said that they would be surprised if 
the two attacks were operationally or directly linked.

They also stressed that it is much too early in the inquiries in 
both countries to determine conclusively whether a resurgent Al 
Qaeda, possibly with a newly installed group of operational 
commanders, had organized or financed either of the two groups of 
men who attacked the London public transportation system on July 7 
and July 21 or the bombings of an upscale hotel, a local market and 
a parking lot in Egypt.
"Egypt is not at all the same political universe as London," said a 
senior diplomat based in Cairo who has decades of experience in the 
Middle East. "It's much too early to draw a link between the two. 
It's also a little bit artificial to say they were supported or 
inspired by Al Qaeda at this point." Saying a number of scenarios 
are possible, he added, "There are a lot of people here in Cairo 
insisting it is not Al Qaeda, that it's a local operation, locally 
inspired."

The head of one European intelligence service who has long monitored 
Al Qaeda said, "It sounds very strange that there could be a link 
between London and Sharm." As for finding a connection to Al Qaeda, 
he said, "It's too soon; we are still trying to determine the origin 
of March 11," referring to the terrorist train attacks in Madrid 
last year that killed 191 people.
That said, there is the conviction among intelligence agencies in 
Europe and the Middle East that terrorism inspired by Al Qaeda's 
ideology, carried out in the name of a violent interpretation of 
Islam, has entered a new, dangerous and global phase.
Those officials point to a surge in terrorist attacks in both Iraq 
and Afghanistan as well as the recent attacks in London and Sharm el 
Sheik that could be part of a new mandate to set off devastating, 
multiple bomb attacks to punish Western governments for their 
foreign policies.

A document that some intelligence services see as a kind of road map 
for the new, more aggressive strategy is a 1,600-page treatise 
written last December by Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, a Syrian-born 
militant who operated in London for many years and who authorities 
believe is the mastermind of the Madrid bombings, the head of a 
European intelligence service said.
Titled "The International Islamic Resistance Call," it outlines 
future strategies for the global jihad movement, dividing the enemy 
into sectors: "Jews, Americans, British, Russian and any and all the 
NATO countries as well as any country taking the position of 
oppressing Islam and Muslims."
Only by carrying out terrorist attacks and decentralized urban 
warfare will the jihadi network win, the treatise said.
There has been a tendency, particularly since the Sept. 11, 2001, 
attacks in the United States, to immediately blame Al Qaeda after a 
terrorist attack of unknown origin, even if there is little proof an 
outside group was involved. It is less terrifying if the terrorists 
are an amorphous outside enemy rather than one that is based 
internally.

But Al Qaeda is almost certainly on the minds of British and 
Egyptian officials as their investigators sift through the evidence 
of the bombings on their soil.
>From the beginning, there was a strong suspicion that the initial 
London attack that killed 56 people might have been an operation 
inspired by Al Qaeda.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on the afternoon of July 7 that 
the attacks in the London Underground and on a double-decker bus 
carried the hallmarks of Al Qaeda. Less than a month before the 
London attacks, Britain's top intelligence and law enforcement 
officials said in a confidential assessment that the threat from Al 
Qaeda's "leadership-directed plots has not gone away."
 
 
 
Investigators have actively pur

[osint] Police Name 2 of 4 Men Linked to Bomb Attempts

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/international/europe/26london.html

Police Name 2 of 4 Men Linked to Bomb Attempts


By ALAN COWELL
Published: July 26, 2005
LONDON, July 25 - The British police on Monday identified by name 
two of four men suspected of trying to set off bombs on the London 
transportation network last week and said the men used a Tupperware-
like container - known as a Delta 6250 - to build the devices.
 
Peter Clarke, the head of London's antiterrorism police, also said 
there were "clear similarities" between the four failed bombs used 
on three subway trains and a bus last Thursday and a fifth device 
found in a park in northwest London on Saturday. The discovery 
raised the possibility that a fifth bomber had been involved in the 
failed attacks on Thursday but had for some reason abandoned his 
explosives.
Mr. Clarke renewed his appeal to the public for information about 
the suspects in the Thursday attacks, underscoring the urgency of 
police efforts to apprehend the four men and forestall any further 
attempts at violence. The police have said repeatedly that they do 
not rule out more attacks. 
Also on Monday, Prime Minister Tony Blair said at a news conference 
that he "deeply regretted" the police killing of a 27-year-old 
Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, whom the police 
mistook for a suicide bomber and shot eight times, not five times as 
first reported. 
"We are all desperately sorry for the death of an innocent person, 
and I understand the feelings of the young man's family," Mr. Blair 
said. "But we also have to understand that the police are doing 
their job in very, very difficult circumstances."
So far five men have been arrested under British counterterrorism 
laws in connection with the failed bombings, but Mr. Clarke 
indicated that the five do not include the four main suspects, whose 
images have been widely distributed.
Speaking at a briefing for reporters, at which no questions were 
permitted, Mr. Clarke produced an example of a plastic, white-lidded 
container called a Delta 6250, with a capacity of a bit more than 
one and a half gallons. It is made in India and sold in about 100 
British outlets.. 
On Monday, the police also raided a home in the New Southgate area 
of north London that had been visited recently by one of the failed 
bombers, identified by Mr. Clarke as Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, who 
also goes by the name of Muktar Mohammed Said. The man was said to 
have tried to bomb a No. 26 bus in east London on Thursday and was 
one of the two men identified by name on Monday.
The second of the two suspects identified by name was Yasin Hassan 
Omar, 24, accused of trying to bomb a Victoria Line subway train 
between Oxford Circus and Warren Street in central London on 
Thursday. The police did not provide any details about the four men, 
although some of them have been reported to be from East Africa.
In each case, Mr. Clarke said, the assailants tried to set off 
explosives carried in sports bags or small backpacks, and then fled 
on foot when the bombs failed to detonate. 
"Initial forensic examination of the four partially detonated 
devices has revealed clear similarities with yet another bomb which 
was found by a member of the public on Saturday 23rd July," he 
said. "This had apparently been abandoned in an open area at Little 
Wormwood Scrubs." 
"All five of these bombs had been placed inside dark colored 
rucksacks or sports bags," he said. "All of them were made using the 
same type of plastic food-storage container." 
"My appeal is to any shopkeepers and shop workers who may have sold 
five or more of these identical food containers in recent months, 
perhaps to the same customer," Mr. Clarke said. "Do you remember 
selling a number of these white topped containers at the same time?" 
Grainy images of the four suspects, taken from closed-circuit 
television cameras, were made public by the police after the 
Thursday attacks. 
Mr. Clarke made two more images public on Monday, one showing in a 
close-up the man who the police said tried a bus bombing, and the 
other showing an unidentified man riding the subway between 
Stockwell and Oval. That man is seen at 12:25 p.m. on Thursday, 
standing in a subway car and wearing a sweatshirt with the 
words "New York" across the chest. 
Behind the man, other riders sit reading newspapers. At the time, 
investigators said detonators failed to set off the explosives, 
which may have been of a homemade type known as triacetone 
triperoxide, or TATP, and nicknamed by insurgents the Mother of 
Satan. 
Mr. Clarke, the antiterrorism official, said that the man in 
the "New York" sweatshirt was chased through the Oval subway station 
by several members of the public, but that he had managed to escape 
into the surrounding Brixton neighborhood, leaving the sweatshirt 
behind. 
The failed bombings were the beginning of a series of events 
culminating in the fatal shooting of Mr. Menezes, mistaken by

[osint] Londoners Grappling With Pervasive New Foes: Fear and Suspicion

[gwen831]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/international/europe/26mood.html

Londoners Grappling With Pervasive New Foes: Fear and Suspicion


By SARAH LYALL
Published: July 26, 2005
LONDON, July 25 - It's a new geography for a new London.
This city, which prides itself on its imperturbability, which 
managed to hold itself together until last Friday, has slipped 
suddenly into a state of nagging anxiety. It is no wonder that an 
editorial cartoon in The Sunday Telegraph depicted a redrawn London 
Underground map with newly named stations: Panic and Fear leading to 
Doom; Dread and Worry leading to Cold Sweat.
LONDON, July 25 - It's a new geography for a new London.
This city, which prides itself on its imperturbability, which 
managed to hold itself together until last Friday, has slipped 
suddenly into a state of nagging anxiety. It is no wonder that an 
editorial cartoon in The Sunday Telegraph depicted a redrawn London 
Underground map with newly named stations: Panic and Fear leading to 
Doom; Dread and Worry leading to Cold Sweat.
 So strange is the mood, so convoluted are people's expectations, 
that even the definition of a successful subway trip has changed. 
Now it is one in which you are neither blown up nor shot. As Jason 
Fanti, 20, nervously positioned near the door on an eastbound 
District Line subway train, put it Monday, "You come out, and it's 
like, 'Thank God nothing happened.' " 
Fear follows passengers around the subways. A number of stations and 
the entire Circle Line are still closed after the July 7 bombings, a 
fact announced every few minutes by a disembodied voice on the 
public address system. Huge posters visible everywhere depict the 
grainy photographs of four suspects in the failed July 21 bombings, 
a reminder that four would-be bombers are still at large.
In the two weeks since the July 7 attacks, there have been 250 
security alerts on the Underground, causing trains to stop, stations 
to be evacuated, lines to be closed down and passengers to worry, 
always, that some new terrible thing has happened.
Anxiety wafts around above ground, too. The sound of police sirens, 
fire engines, ambulances, the odd helicopter overhead - all these 
raise the tension. The ear attunes itself to listen for what's next. 
One emergency vehicle whining past and fading away might be O.K.; 
five sirens, one right after the other and stopping nearby, is not 
so good.
Radio call-in shows debate the pros and cons of shoot-to-kill 
policies on the Underground. Visitors' bags are searched at movie 
houses, West End theaters, museums and galleries. Officers with guns 
are patrolling the streets. "It does feel different," Paul Sutton, 
50, a credit controller, said Monday. "I suppose we feel a bit 
unsafe."
Mr. Sutton had stopped in to Tavistock Square Gardens to sign a book 
of condolence for the victims of the July 7 bombings. The garden is 
devoted to peace. Its centerpiece is a statue of Gandhi. There is a 
monument honoring conscientious objectors - "all those who have 
established and are maintaining the right to refuse to kill," the 
inscription says.
On July 7, the No. 30 bus blew up as it passed the edge of the 
garden. Fifteen people were killed, including the bomber. The blood 
that spattered the British Medical Association headquarters opposite 
the garden has now been cleaned up, and the body parts that were 
propelled into the trees have long since been removed, by cherry-
pickers, residents say. But people here are still jittery.
Mr. Sutton never got to work on July 7. He got to the subway at 8:15 
a.m., made it to Victoria Station, got on a train that broke down, 
was rerouted to a bus, got off the bus when service was canceled, 
tried to go somewhere else, walked for a while, and finally got home 
at 4:30 p.m.
Last Friday, his train was behind the one in which Jean Charles de 
Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, was shot and killed by a police 
officer who mistook him for a bomber. The train was stuck in the 
tunnel for perhaps an hour, he said, while an elderly woman en route 
to a hospital for an operation frantically paced up and down the 
car, telling everyone not to panic.
"The driver kept telling us he didn't know what was happening, but 
that an ambulance had been called, and the police," he said. "The 
fact that he was talking to us at all was very helpful."
Mr. Sutton said he felt mildly comforted by the fact that there were 
more police officers around, even if they shot the wrong person. His 
father died last Wednesday, and when he ran to catch the train, he 
was stopped by an officer who asked him what he was doing. "Fair 
enough," he says now.
For people too spooked for the subway, there is always the bus. "But 
even buses are strange now," said Antony Marko, 20, interviewed as 
he rode on the top deck of the No. 2 in Stockwell. "The only reason 
I'm on the bus is, my car broke down."
Scared of the bus? Buy a scooter. That was the solution for Gemma 
Osborn, 26, who commutes fro

[osint] Timeline: London bombings developments

[Bruce Tefft]

 

Timeline: London bombings developments 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4694069.stm
A day-by-day look at developments following the London bombings: 





TUESDAY 26 JULY

Police find a large quantity of "possible" explosives in a flat in New
Southgate, north London, where bomb suspect Yasin Hassan Omar lived. 


They also cordon off a white VW Golf in East Finchley. Security sources said
it was believed to have been used by one of the suspected would-be bombers
on 21 July. 


Police are given extra time to question a man arrested in Tulse Hill, south
London, on 23 July. 


He could now be held until 27 July, along with two men arrested in Stockwell
on 22 July. 



Meanwhile, the family of Muktar Said Ibrahim issue a statement expressing
their shock that he has been named a suspect in the attempted bombing of the
No 26 bus in Hackney Road on 21 July. 



MONDAY 25 JULY




 Muktar Said Ibrahim
 
Police are seeking Muktar Said Ibraihim over the 21 July attacks
Police say the device found at Little Wormwood Scrubs, in west London, was a
bomb similar to those used by the 21 July attackers, prompting speculation a
fifth bomber may still be at large. 

They release details of the plastic food containers used for all five
devices. 



They also name two of the suspected failed bombers as Muktar Said Ibrahim,
27, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, and Yasin Hassan Omar, 24. 


Ibrahim is being linked to the attempted bombing of a Number 26 bus and Omar
to an attack on the Tube between Oxford Circus and Warren Street. 


Armed officers raid a property in Ladderswood Way, New Southgate, north
London, which Ibrahim is thought to have visited recently. 


Police also reveal that two more people have been arrested, taking the total
held to five. 


Tony Blair expresses regret over the death at Stockwell Tube of Jean Charles
de Menezes, as his inquest hears that he was shot eight times - seven times
in the head and once in the shoulder. 





SUNDAY 24 JULY


Police carry out a controlled explosion on the suspicious package found in
Little Wormwood Scrubs. 




Police are granted extra time to question the two men arrested in Stockwell
and reveal they have arrested a third man under the Terrorism Act, in Tulse
Hill, south London. 



Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Ian Blair apologises to the family of Mr
Menezes and Home Secretary Charles Clarke expresses his regret. 



Families of the victims of the 7 July attacks visit the scenes to pay
tribute to their loved ones. 




SATURDAY 23 JULY

The man shot dead at Stockwell Tube was not connected to the 21 July
attacks, police say. They name him as Charles de Menezes, 27, a Brazilian
working as an electrician in London. 



Stockwell and Warren Street stations reopen and the train on which a bomb
failed to detonate properly at Shepherd's Bush station is moved. 


Police say a second man was arrested in Stockwell, south London and officers
raid a flat in Streatham Hill, also in south London. 



Police say a suspicious package found in bushes at Little Wormwood Scrubs,
north-west London may be linked to the attacks. 




A possible link between those behind the 21 July London attacks and a
whitewater rafting course attended by two of the 7 July bombers in north
Wales is investigated. 



FRIDAY 22 JULY


A man is shot dead by armed officers at Stockwell Tube station as police
continued to hunt four would-be bombers. 




 Stockwell Tube station
 

Passenger Mark Whitby tells BBC News he saw a man of Asian appearance shot
five times by "plain-clothes police officers" with a handgun. 


"I saw the gun being fired five times into the guy - he is dead," he said. 


Passengers were evacuated from the Northern Line station in south London. 


Police arrest a man in Stockwell in connection with Thursday's failed
attacks. 



THURSDAY 21 JULY

London's transport network is again plunged into chaos with stations cleared
after attempted bombings on Tube trains at Oval, Warren Street and
Shepherd's Bush Underground stations and on a number 26 bus in Bethnal
Green. 


The devices only partially exploded but Met Police Sir Ian Blair says they
were designed to kill people. 


No-one is injured in the incidents but they cause disruption on three Tube
lines and around stations across the capital. 


A massive hunt begins for the bombers who fled when their bombs failed to
explode properly. 



WEDNESDAY 20 JULY

Several people are arrested in Pakistan, the country's High Commissioner to
the UK confirms. 


Maleeha Lodhi tells BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: "A number of people have
been taken in for questioning because obviously we want to make sure we get
to the bottom of this as much as you do." 



TUESDAY 19 JULY

The train carriage in which seven people died at Edgware Road station is
removed from the track. 


A Lee

[osint] China a novice in wheeler-dealer ways of capital

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Novice, maybe...but too dangerous to be allowed to play.

Bruce

China a novice in wheeler-dealer ways of capital

By William Neikirk Tribune senior correspondent Mon Jul 25, 9:40 AM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/chinaanoviceinwheelerdealerwaysofcapital;_
ylt=AgKpkC4wLojRk7miaMmQUtRvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

The ritual dance between lobbyists and lawmakers is as old as the capital
itself. Monied interests lubricate the Federal City to try to get their way.

And the latest player, China, is also the largest, with the potential to
accelerate the pace of globalization in new and unexpected ways with
extraordinary stakes for U.S. businesses and the nation's economy.

China, in its early forays in the influence game, is showing a deftness that
belies its newness, hiring big-name lobbyists to overcome anti-Chinese
sentiment in the nation's capital.

Charles Black, a longtime fixture in Republican politics and an admiral in
the capital's K Street lobbyist fleet, has become the latest consultant
hired to represent CNOOC, a Chinese oil company, in its controversial effort
to take over the American oil giant Unocal.

The hiring of Black, whose ties to Republican presidents span from Ronald
Reagan to George W. Bush, reveals much about China's strategic acumen in
seeking to wield greater influence in Washington.

It comes on top of CNOOC's retention of a prominent Washington law firm,
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and a public-relations firm, Public
Strategies, whose vice chairman produced most of the television campaign ads
for President Bush's two winning White House runs.

`Gold-plated' advisers

As a result, said a GOP consultant, the
government-owned oil company has assembled "a gold-plated team of advisers.
They've gone with the A-Team."

Unfortunately for its members and CNOOC, the "A-Team"
has run into a storm of opposition against the deal on Capitol Hill and had
to endure rumblings among the Washington lobbying community that its efforts
so far have been ineffective. In addition, the CNOOC deal may not come off
at all after the Unocal board accepted Chevron's revised offer to buy the
company.

Despite these troubles, CNOOC's bold move to use powerful lobbyists in
Washington for its economic interests appears to be the first wave of a
growing China lobby in the nation's capital, and one that has strong echoes
of the presence of Japanese interests in Washington in the 1980s.

"It's going to get bigger," said Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic
Strategy Institute and author of a book on China's economic relations with
the U.S. "There is going to be more Chinese investment, because they are
swimming in dollars."

Xiaohua "Sarah" Zhao, a law partner in the Washington office of Holland &
Knight, said China is making strides in lobbying and gaining in
sophistication about how it works in the U.S. after decades of isolation.
"Right now, it has become a major player,"
she said.

Donald Straszheim, a California economic consultant and China expert, said,
"I believe the Chinese are going to do much more of this. It's just
business, that's all." He predicted the Chinese would be seeking to buy more
American companies, including possibly Lucent Technologies, and would need
Washington lobbying expertise.

China's decision Thursday to revalue its currency could ease American
criticism of its trade policies and soften opposition to the CNOOC deal.

But the Chinese bid for Unocal has laid bare some harsh feelings about how
far lobbyists should go in representing state-owned enterprises and
triggered anti-Chinese rhetoric on Capitol Hill. In many respects, the
deal--even if doesn't go through--could determine how extensive Chinese
lobbying becomes in the future.

"If they are successful, I think the Chinese would look at this [lobbying]
and say, `This is something we would continue to do,'" said Glen Bolger, a
Republican consultant and pollster. "There are a lot of risks for firms in
the U.S. to do that. They [Akin Gump] have already come under public
criticism for it. I don't think it's quite the same thing as doing work for
a European country and many other parts of the world.
There is a distrust of the Chinese system and the government."

But Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), an ardent opponent of the CNOOC deal and a
strong critic of Akin Gump's representation of the Chinese, nonetheless sees
an increase in Chinese lobbying in the future. According to the Center for
Public Integrity, a non-partisan organization that tracks political money,
China spent less than $1 million last year on lobbying in the U.S.

Unocal deal unlikely 

"They've never done much in this town," said Black, who is working with Akin
Gump to help CNOOC win federal government approval of the Unocal deal--a
prospect that is looking increasingly dim. 

But in case CNOOC succeeds in the purchase, Black and Akin Gump would seek
to help the company win approval by a Bush administration committee, the
Committee on Foreign Investm

[osint] Bombings police search seized car

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Bombings police search seized car 
Police hunting the men behind the 21 July failed bomb attacks on London are
searching a car for forensic evidence. 

Security sources say it is thought one of the bombers could have been in the
white VW Golf, seized in East Finchley, north London, at some point. 


It comes after officers searching bomb suspect Yasin Hassan Omar's former
home in north London found a large amount of "possible explosives". 


Five people have so far been arrested in connection with the failed
bombings. 


None of the five, all held under anti-terror laws, is thought to have been
among the bombers. 


Police have closed a road in East Finchley while they examine the car. 


Security sources told BBC News they did not believe the vehicle was owned by
any of the bomb suspects. Eyewitness Andrew Lim told BBC News police had
cordoned off the road at about 1030 BST. 


He described seeing scores of police officers descend on the scene, along
with fire engines and ambulances, while helicopters circled overhead. 


Meanwhile, the family of Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27 - also known as Muktar
Mohammed Said - who police believe tried to blow up the no 26 bus in Hackney
Road, Bethnal Green, have said they knew nothing about his involvement until
they saw his picture on the news. 


In a statement, they said they were "shocked" when they saw it and
immediately contacted police. 


Bomb disposal officers remain at the 12-storey Curtis House, in Ladderswood
Way, New Southgate, which was stormed by armed police on Monday. 


Counter-terrorism sources have confirmed that a "large amount" of "possibly"
explosive material had been found there, BBC home affairs correspondent
Daniel Sandford says. 


Detectives have no evidence the bombing suspects have left the country and
believe they may all be hiding in a safe house in the capital. 


London mayor Ken Livingstone told BBC News: "There's a very real risk they
will have gone straight to a safe house and be just locked into it, perhaps
with a lot of supplies there." 


He asked anyone who had noticed suspicious "comings and goings" at a house
near them to come forward. 


Police have linked Omar to the attack on a Victoria line Tube train between
Warren Street and Oxford Circus on 21 July. 

Enfield Council confirmed he had been a tenant at Curtis House and had been
receiving £75 a week in housing benefit. 


Ibrahim, who police believe tried to blow up the Number 26 bus while it was
heading towards Hackney, has been linked to the same address. 


Both men have been legally resident in the UK for more than 10 years, having
arrived as child dependents of asylum seekers, according to the Home Office.



Omar, 24, is a Somalian national who arrived in Britain aged 11 in 1992 and
was granted exceptional leave to remain in the country, until May 2000 when
he was granted indefinite leave to remain. 


Property searches 


Ibrahim is a naturalised British citizen who arrived in from Eritrea as a
dependant in 1992, aged 14, and was granted exceptional leave to remain. 


In November 2003 he applied for naturalisation as a British citizen and was
issued with his British passport in September 2004. 


According to Harrow Borough Council, someone called Muktar Mohammed Said
attended Canons High School in Stanmore, Middlesex, between 1991 and 1994. 


Two other men are being sought in connection with failed bombings - one near
Shepherd's Bush, west London, the other near Oval station, south London. 


There are also concerns that a fifth bomber is on the loose after a device
was found in Little Wormwood Scrubs, west London, on Saturday. 


Police have been given extra time to question a man arrested in Tulse Hill,
south London, on 23 July. 


He can now be held until 27 July, along with two men arrested in Stockwell
on 22 July. 


The other two detainees were arrested in the New Southgate area on 25 July. 


A sixth man arrested as part of the inquiry was not linked with the 21 July
attacks and has been charged with wasting police time. 



TRACKS OF THE BOMB SUSPECTS 
All journeys started between 12:20 and 12:25 . Times approx. 

OVAL: Man boards northbound Northern Line train at Stockwell and tries to
set off bomb between Stockwell and Oval, where he leaves the train. He is
chased out of the station at 1235 BST, but escapes towards Brixton. 

HACKNEY: Man, identified by police as Muktar Said Ibrahim - or Muktar
Mohammed Said - also sets off from Stockwell. Boards Number 26 bus at 1253
at Bank. Police believe he was carrying bomb in a grey and black rucksack,
and tried to detonate bomb while on board. Gets off in Hackney Road, near
junction with Colombia Road, at 1306. 

WARREN STREET: Man named as Yasin Hassan Omar, boards Tube train at
Stockwell carrying a bomb in a purple rucksack, police say. Later tries to
set off bomb on a northbound Victoria Line train between Oxford Circus and
Warren Street, detectives say. Seen without rucksack at 1240 in Warren
Street Station bef

[osint] Bus bomb suspect family's shock

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 

Bus bomb suspect family's shock 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4718797.stm


 Muktar Said Ibrahim
 
Ibrahim's family had not seen him for months before he was named by police
The family of suspected would-be bomber Muktar Said Ibrahim said they were
"shocked" to discover he was being hunted over the 21 July London attacks. 

Ibrahim is wanted in connection with a blast on a No 26 bus in Hackney Road.



In a statement, the family of the 27-year-old said that as soon as they saw
his picture on news reports they contacted police. 


Superintendent Richard Freeman said the family had been "really, really
co-operating" with the investigation. 


Helping police 


Ibrahim's family said they moved to the UK in 1990. 


They said Ibrahim left home in 1994, lives alone and is "not a close family
member". 


He had not visited them for months when police named him as a suspected
attempted bomber, they added. 


Family members said it had been a difficult time and they appealed to be
left alone. 


"The family wish to express their shock regarding recent events and in no
way condone any acts of terrorism," the statement added. 


Superintendent Freeman, of Harrow Police, said the family had been the first
to contact police after the appeal.

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[osint] Iraqi minister blasts Syria on terrorists

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 


Iraqi minister blasts Syria on terrorists




BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's defense minister criticized Syria on Tuesday
for ignoring Iraqi demands "to stop the infiltration of terrorists."

The official, Saadoun al-Dulaimi, singled out Iraq's western neighbor as
among states that are slack on stopping the flow of militants into his
country.

"When the lava of the exploding volcano of Iraq overflows, it will first hit
Damascus," al-Dulaimi warned during a news conference to discuss an upcoming
nationwide security plan.

He said militants are coming into Iraq from Syria via three routes, with the
intent of targeting the Baghdad region.

The first one is in the far north, passing through Tal Afar, south into
Baiji and Kirkuk and then into Baghdad.

The second route is along the Euphrates River, from the border town of Qaim
into Falluja, west of the capital.

>From there, fighters proceed to other places -- such as Abu Ghraib on
Baghdad's western outskirts and the "Triangle of Death" towns south of the
capital -- Yusifiya, Latifiya and Mahmoudiya.

The third course is near Iraq's border with Syria and Jordan. Al-Dulaimi
said most car bombers use this route, a desert stretch easy to penetrate.

Syria insists it is trying to stem the flow of such movements.


Ambassador urges compromise


The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq on Monday stressed the importance of
compromise and strong leadership as Iraqis work to draft a constitution
before the August 15 deadline.

"If one looks across the cases of successful constitutions, a key
commonality was enlightened leadership -- leaders who took the long view and
understood that compromise that delivers the benefits of stable and
effective governance is more valuable than seeking a maximum outcome at the
expense of political unity," said Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, who succeeded
John Negroponte, now U.S. director of national intelligence

Khalilzad -- the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan -- said that when the
U.S. constitution was being formulated, "there were profound differences
between states with large and small populations."

"Yet an accommodation was ultimately found -- a bicameral legislative branch
with population-based representation in the House of Representatives and
equal representation for all states in the Senate."

Khalilzad said the issue of establishing powers between national and
regional sections of government "is not uncommon even among the more
developed countries."

Also Monday, the Sunni Arab delegation to the committee drafting the
constitution ended its boycott of the proceedings, an aide to the panel's
chairman said.

Twelve of the 15 members of the Sunni delegation walked out last week
following the assassination of fellow member Mijbil Ali Hussein al-Sheikh
Issa and one of his advisers.

Two other members removed themselves from the delegation following insurgent
threats. ( 
Full story)

The members demanded the Iraqi government provide them with better security
and that an independent investigation of the killings be conducted.

President Jalal Talabani said security would be provided to the delegation
and his government would explore the possibility of an international probe.


Other developments


*   Twelve Iraqi workers were killed Tuesday and another 22 wounded when
insurgents shot at their minibuses as they were leaving an iron factory in
Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi police official said. In violence Monday, 14 Iraqis
died in two separate suicide car bombings in Baghdad, police officials and
the Iraqi Ministry of Defense reported. A car bomb detonated at a
checkpoint, killing 12 people and wounding 16. A second such blast killed
two Iraqi police officers and wounded 11. 




*   An Internet statement posted Tuesday in the name of al Qaeda in Iraq
claimed the group had issued death sentences against two Algerian envoys
kidnapped last week in Baghdad. The statement -- published by several
Islamic Web sites -- could not be immediately authenticated. Algeria has
withdrawn its diplomats and their families from the country after the
abductions, Foreign Minister Mohammed Bedjaoui told Algerian television
Monday. The kidnapping was the latest in a series of attacks targeting
diplomats from Arab and Muslim countries. (
 Full story)





*   Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka arrived Tuesday in Baghdad for a
meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Polish spokeswoman
said. 




*   A study by the U.S. State and Defense departments found that
insurgents and other criminals have infiltrated Iraqi police ranks due to
poor screening procedures by American forces. (
 Full
story)

CNN's Enes Dulami and Cal Perry contributed to this report.


     
   

[osint] FW: MARY JO KOPECHNE

[Bruce Tefft]

 


  

>From Mary Jo Kopechne...

I would have been 65 years of age this year. Read about me and my killer
below.

When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on Capitol
Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his
deplorable past.  But now that he's become a leading Republican attack dog,
positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity,
the days for such indulgence are now over.

It's time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why this chief
spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 ~ time to say the
words Mary Jo Kopechne out loud.

As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that
most Americans already know the story of how this "Conscience of the
Democratic Party" left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath
the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying
with the young blonde campaign worker.  But most Americans under 40 have
never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried
to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel.

Those young voters don't know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside Kennedy's
Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died, while the
Democrats'leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate
the best alibi he could think of.

Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his
ear 15 years earlier ~ for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish
final.
Or why the U.S. Army denied him a commission because he cheated on tests.

As they listen to the Democrats' "Liberal Lion" accuse President Bush of
"telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in Iraq, young
voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach,
when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening
that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape.

It's time for Republicans to state unabashedly that they will no longer "go
along with the gag" when it comes to Uncle Ted's rants about deception and
moral turpitude inside the Bush White House.  And if the Republicans don't,
let's do it ourselves by passing this forgotten disgrace around the Internet
to wake up memories of what a fraud and fake Teddy really is.

The Democratic Party should be ashamed to have this national disgrace from
Massachusetts as their spokesman.




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[osint] EUROPE: The Second Front (Islamic terrorism is like HIV-AIDS)

[Bruce Tefft]

French investigative judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has long been warning that
the war against radicals is one which needs to be won quickly. Bruguiere
compares the jihadists to the HIV-virus. Whenever anyone thinks it has been
conquered, it just returns in a newer, more dangerous form. 


 
SPIEGEL ONLINE - July 18, 2005, 04:04 PM
URL:  
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,365677,00.html 

Terror
 
The Second Front

By Helene Zuber, Volkhard Windfuhr, Markus Verbeet, Alexander Smoltczyk,
Matthias Matussek, Georg Mascolo and Klaus Brinkbaeumer 


Europe has become the prime target for al-Qaida. But how does one protect
subway trains and buses from attacks? What can the police and intelligence
services do to stop suicide bombers who are born and bred among us, have
been members of the community and never stood out until the moment of the
explosion? 



 Who were these four men and why did they become so radical that they were
willing to blow themselves up and kill innocent people?


REUTERS
Who were these four men and why did they become so radical that they were
willing to blow themselves up and kill innocent people?
When words from politicians repeat themselves enough they start to sound
hollow. At some point they are bound to fail.

"We all share our complete resolution to defeat this terrorism," British
Prime Minister Tony Blair said on the day the bombs hit. It was the rhetoric
of mobilization against an external enemy. But can a war be won against
young men from the heart of your own country who kill themselves along with
their victims?

On the following nights, when words didn't seem adequate, very serious
people said that London residents should go shopping in defiance of
terrorism. Underground trains traveled the Tube once again in defiance of
al-Qaida. They did so because we Europeans won't allow ourselves to be
intimidated by them, the Islamists. Last Thursday, another night when words
failed, Londoners gathered at Trafalgar Square to mourn the victims of the
four bombings of July 7. Speakers stood up to call London the "most
magnificent city in the world," and the mayor, Ken Livingstone, said "those
who came here to kill last Thursday had many goals, but one was that we
should turn on each other, like animals trapped in a cage, and they failed,
totally and utterly."

Of course, none of this lovely rhetoric is quite true. London residents had
to go shopping after the bombings so they could eat. The Underground had to
run so people could get from point A to point B. They aren't heroes, they
are no longer composed and they are no longer proud of their own composure.
They are intimidated. Today, London isn't magnificent, it has been defeated.
The terrorists have triumphed -- they didn't come from the outside, they
were British citizens and Europeans. 

But it was also a defeat for al-Qaida in the sense that the number of people
killed on July 7 was 54. It could have and should have been hundreds. 


But should that bring any consolation? Is it a victory? 

The four young men wanted to detonate four bombs on the capital city's
public transportation system and they did it. They didn't just want to hide
their bombs beneath the seats. Instead they wanted to die with their victims
as Western Europe's first-ever suicide bombers and they did that. They told
their families they were going to a seminar and then three of them drove a
rental car from Leeds in West Yorkshire to Luton, where they met up with
killer No. 4 and continued on by train to London. 

Together, they went through the train station at King's Cross like four
Muslim cowboys -- probably even knowing that they were being filmed by CCTV
cameras. And as if to mock the investigators, they were carrying a heap of
passports and papers -- they wanted to become famous.

They have.

Who were the terrorists?


 He used to help his father at the fish n'chips eatery.


AFP/ Daily NEWS
He used to help his father at the fish n'chips eatery.
Shehzad Tanweer, 22, studied sports at the University of Leeds and he played
cricket, a British pastime. In his bedroom, he displayed his trophies. A few
months ago, he traveled to Pakistan to study Arabic and the Koran, but "he
didn't like the people there," his uncle explained. On July 7, at 8:50 a.m.,
90 meters into the Underground tunnel between the Liverpool Street and
Aldgate stations, in the third Underground train car, between two and four
kilograms of explosives detonated in Tanweer's backpack.

Hasib Hussain, 18, grew up in the Holbeck neighborhood in south Leeds, where
he bought candy at the corner store owned by Ajimal Singh and played soccer
on the streets. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Hussain passed out
flyers stating that "Justice has been done." As a student, he was disruptive
and loutish. So much so, that his father sent hi

[osint] London Attack Suspect Is Also Sought by US: Ujaama

[Bruce Tefft]

 

London Attack Suspect Is Also Sought by US


(7/25/2005): London Attack Suspect Is Also Sought by U.S.
The British man, a Muslim who spoke by cellphone with suicide bombers, had
plans to set up a terrorist camp in Oregon, officials say.
By Richard A. Serrano
Times Staff Writer

July 25, 2005

WASHINGTON - A key suspect in the July 7 transit bombings in London has long
been wanted by U.S. authorities for prosecution in this country,
particularly after federal officials developed evidence three years ago that
he was trying to help establish a terrorist training camp on the West Coast
to wage war against Americans.

But federal investigators said they did not locate Haroon Rashid Aswat, a
British Muslim of Indian descent, even after they agreed to give his alleged
collaborator in Seattle a light prison sentence in the hope that the man
would lead them to him.

Justice Department officials in Washington said Sunday that the Seattle man,
Earnest James Ujaama, had been extremely helpful in putting together an
indictment against another London Muslim, Egyptian cleric Abu Hamza al
Masri, but that he had not led them directly to Aswat.

Had they found Aswat, officials conceded, it might have prevented the deadly
London attacks on three subway trains and a bus that killed 52 people, plus
the four suicide bombers. Investigators in Britain believe that Aswat had
perhaps as many as 20 cellphone conversations with some of the London
suicide bombers.

But U.S. authorities questioned a report in Sunday's Seattle Times quoting
unnamed current and former federal officials as saying that Washington had
blocked Aswat's indictment in Seattle.

"That's obviously not true," one senior Justice Department official with
intimate knowledge of the Seattle case said Sunday. "There were plenty of
terrorism cases handled around the country - in Buffalo, in Chicago, in
North Carolina. The districts where the suspects or targets resided is
generally where they were prosecuted."

But, he said, indictments of suspects living abroad were usually assigned to
the U.S. attorney's office in New York, which specializes in extraditing
them to this country for trial.

Jim Neff, investigations editor for the Seattle Times, said the paper stood
behind its report.

Ujaama, a U.S. citizen born James Earnest Thompson, was well known in
Seattle and had often worked as a volunteer with various community programs.
Indeed, when he appeared at a pretrial hearing in October 2002, U.S.
Magistrate Judge John L. Weinberg said: "Ten years ago, even seven years
ago, nobody in this room would have predicted that Mr. Ujaama would be
sitting where he is today, facing charges of this kind. His background is
exemplary."

But his indictment in August 2002 alleged that he had close ties with Aswat
and Hamza, and that the group was planning to start a terrorist training
camp in an isolated area near Bly, Ore., and to set up an Al Qaeda-like base
in the Pacific Northwest.

According to the indictment, Ujaama changed his name in 1999 and moved to
London. He began working on Hamza's website, which often warned of impending
attacks on American interests and scornfully called this country "the United
Snakes of America."

Hamza preached at London's Finsbury Park mosque, where his congregation
included not only Aswat and Ujaama, but also convicted "shoe bomber" Richard
Reid, who in December 2001 unsuccessfully attempted to light explosives in
his sneakers to bring down a transatlantic passenger jet, and Zacarias
Moussaoui, who has pleaded guilty to conspiring with Al Qaeda operatives in
the Sept. 11 terrorist plot.

Ujaama also began collaborating with Hamza and Aswat to "provide facilities
in the United States for training of persons interested in violent jihad,"
government documents allege. The plan was to build safe houses at the Bly
camp, recruit jihadists and "provide actual training in firearms, military
and guerrilla tactics."

The indictment did not mention Aswat by name, referring to him as
"unindicted co-conspirator #2." It described him as being heavily involved
with Ujaama in securing the safe houses and firearms.

The charges also stated that Aswat was an "emissary" of the cleric, Hamza,
who was identified in the indictment as "unindicted co-conspirator #1." The
government alleged that Hamza sent Aswat to New York on an Air India flight
in November 1999.

He then met up with Ujaama in Seattle, and they traveled together to Bly,
near the Northern California border.

At Bly, the indictment said, Aswat "inspected the proposed jihad training
camp" and "met potential candidates for jihad training."

He and Ujaama also allegedly "established security for the Bly property
through the use of guard patrols and passwords, and they and others
participated in firearms training and viewed a video recording in the
subject of improvised poisons."

In February 2000, Aswat allegedly moved for a time to Seattle, where he
"expounded on the teachings and writings" of the cleric.

He

[osint] Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi: al-Zarqawi "Spiritual Godfather"

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi: al-Zarqawi "Spiritual Godfather"

26/07/2005 

By Mshari Al-Zaydi http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?id=968


  
  


Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi, born in 1962, has, once again, made the headlines
of extremist news bulletins and amongst followers of the Salafi movement
(following the methods of the early Muslims) who espouse jihad (holy
struggle) and of which he can be considered "the Godfather". 


Al Maqdisi was born Isam Mohammed Taher al Barqawi, and not Asim, Mohammed
Asim, or Mohammed Islam as some might believe, in Barqa, near the city of
Nablus , in the Palestine . The surname Maqdisi is in reference to Bayt al
Maqdis or Haram al Sharif (the Temple Mount ). He later added the title al
Utaybi when signing some of his books. 


I remember reading a hand-written copy of al Maqdisi's well-known book "The
Faith of Ibrahim" which he signed "Abu Mohammed isam bin Taher al Barqawi al
Hafi al Utaybi al Maqdisi", mixing his appropriated titles. The title al
Utaybi is common around Barqa according to renowned Palestinian intellectual
Dr. Ahmad Barqawi. Barqawi however, is a very different surname to al Hafi,
each representing a distinct tribe. Some observers believe using the title
al Utaybi is an attempt by al Maqdisi to establish ties with Saudi Arabia. 


Whatever the name, Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi was born in the Occupied
Territories but grew up in Kuwait where his family emigrated, like so many
other Palestinian families did, during the 1960s and 1970s. At the time,
many political groups were active in the Gulf Emirates, most notably
pan-Arab and leftist groups. However, a small group of Islamists, known al
Ahl al Hadith (Followers of the sayings of the Prophet) flourished. Members
followed a puritanical approach and decided to consult the Prophet's sayings
in a methodical, puritanical manner. The supporters of Saudi Juhayman al
Utaibi who occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979 inspired the group. 


The pronouncements of Juhayman and his group of "brothers" were published in
Kuwait by the Dar al Taliah al Taqadumiyah (Progressive Vanguard)
Publishing. One of the closest supporters of the Saudi fundamentalist was
Abdel Latif al Dirbas, also known as Abu Hazza, jailed for several years in
the wake of the Mecca attack and forcibly returned to Kuwait after his
release. 


Abu Hazza was al Maqdisi's brother in-law, since both men married sisters.
At the time, al Maqdisi was affiliated with Ahl al Hadith who did not yet
sanction jihad and violent confrontation. This emphasis on theory stayed
with al Maqdisi throughout his life; he was a man of words and not of the
sword. This was in sharp opposition to his Jordanian student, Ahmad al
Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al Zarqawi. 


Al Maqdisi disagreed sharply with other Islamist in Kuwait , especially as
he branded many individuals as infidels. He was an extremist who demanded
his supporters resign from government jobs and withdraw their children from
mainstream schools. Abu Hazza tried to reconcile al Maqdisi with other
Islamists. After Saddam Hussein invaded Iraq , al Maqdisi wrote a book, "How
to Raise Leading Knights by Abandoning Corrupt Schools", where he attacked
government schools comparing them to works by the devil. 


His first mention in Saudi fundamentalist milieus came after he published a
book in support of a Salafi cleric from the city of Buraidah , the capital
of the Qasim in the centre of the Kingdom, Abdullah al Duwaish who died in
the 1990s. The cleric had criticized Sayyid Qutb, the founder of the Muslim
Brotherhood, for failing to abide by Ibh Hanbal's strict criteria in a book,
"In the Shadows of the Quran." This bold move by had angered many, in Kuwait
and abroad. 


It is important, at this point in the discussion, to ask ourselves if al
Maqdisi identified with the Muslim Brotherhood before breaking away from the
group, or was he a mere observer who was familiar with their writings?
Reading the book where he supports the breakaway Saudi cleric, one realized
al Maqdisi was well versed in the Muslim Brotherhood's literature. His
criticism was based on a deep knowledge, resembling that of Ayman al
Zawahiri in his book "The Bitter Harvest". 


It remains to be seen how close al Maqdisi identified with the group. What
is certain, however, is that the Palestinian lived in an environment
influenced by the Brotherhood, identifying closely with Juhayman because of
his fiery tempter, drastic solutions, and Salafi tendencies. 


As the arguments with supporters in Kuwait grew more frequent, al Maqdisi
moved to Saudi Arabia , after the Iraqi invasion, where he lived for a short
period, before returning to Jordan . 


I met him in 1989, before he moved to the Kingdom, in Mecca , while he was
visiting to perform the Umrah (short pilgrimage performed by Muslims anytime
of the year), surrounded by a group of young men. We spoke briefly. I
remember him an energetic, intelligent man, eager to promote his v

[osint] Lessons from Leeds (Tablighi Jamaat)

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
 
DER SPIEGEL 29/2005 - July 18, 2005 
URL:  
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,365616,00.html 

Terror
 
Lessons from Leeds

By Holger Stark and Dominik Cziesche 


After the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, German investigators began
searching for Muslim extremists in the country's more radical mosques. But
in the wake of the London terror, they are now seeking a profile that
doesn't stand out: Muslims born and bred in Germany who may have become
radicalized without showing up on the radar of intelligence officials. 



 Police conduct a raid on a mosque in the western German city of Bochum in
2004 where officials are suspected of harboring Islamist extremists.


AP
Police conduct a raid on a mosque in the western German city of Bochum in
2004 where officials are suspected of harboring Islamist extremists.
It's an almost impossible task for investigators, and if weren't for the
fact that human lives are at stake, it would be the height of absurdity.
Ever since the July 7 terrorist attacks in London, German police have been
looking for men whose most-unique trait is the fact that they don't stand
out at all. Investigators are now looking for young Muslims, between about
18 and 30 years of age, who have grown up in middle-class families and lived
relatively sheltered lives. It's a profile that already began taking shape
after the 2004 Madrid train bombings.

"We have to stop focusing exclusively on attackers or sleeper cells who come
here from abroad," says Jörg Schönbohm, the Christian Democratic interior
minister of the German state of Brandenburg, summing up the shift in
attitude.

German investigators have stepped up their efforts to search for Muslims who
grew up in Germany and may have become radicalized, albeit under the radar.
The first thing the authorities have done is to monitor the activities of
those on the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation's list of
leading potential terrorists. Three-quarters of the 105 Islamists in this
category have been located, but about 30 couldn't be tracked down
immediately. Investigators have also begun wire-tapping every telephone
conversation in the radical Muslim scene, and undercover agents are
infiltrating some of the more suspect mosques to gauge the mood.

A special team of officials at Germany's joint federal and state
counterterrorism center set up to investigate what it calls
"Islamist/terrorist manpower potential" began combing through the center's
files last week. They're looking for answers to questions like: Who could
have drifted unnoticed into the militant milieu? Where are there connections
between radicals and unknowns?

Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution maintains a
list of about 300 Islamists seen as the hard core of the radicalized scene.
Although about twice as many are considered part of their extended sphere of
influence, the lesson from Leeds is that suicide bombers don't necessarily
have to be part of either of these groups. One German official puts it
bluntly when he says that the London terrorist attacks have confirmed "our
fears." Meanwhile, Uwe Schünemann (CDU), interior minister of the state of
Lower Saxony, warns that Germany must also "prepare for such attacks."

Germany has been lucky so far. Many young radical Muslims, like Tarkan K.
from Munich, have already left the country to fight elsewhere. The
31-year-old, whose life story is eerily similar to that of the man British
tabloid The Sun dubbed the "Boy Bomber" from Leeds, grew up in the staunchly
middle-class suburb Neuhausen. For most of his life, he was considered an
affable fellow. But then, at 22, he suddenly donned the long robes of the
conservative Muslim and disappeared in the direction of Pakistan. Like two
of the London terrorists, Tarkan K. was put in touch with radical groups
there by traveling imams associated with Tablighi Jamaat, a religious
organization active in Europe and now suspected of radicalizing British
Muslims.

Fellow travelers later reported that Tarkan K. learned how to build bombs in
the Hindukush region. He's now in prison in Turkey, after Turkish
authorities tied him to terrorists who set off an explosive device in front
of the British general consulate in Istanbul in 2003.

While politicians squabbled last week over counterterrorism computer files
and increased video surveillance, those involved in the more practical
aspects of fighting terror were uncharacteristically unanimous about one
thing: Solving the problem will take more than just suppression --
prevention and integration are just as important in the long run.

As law enforcement and intelligence officials turn their attention more
sharply to preventing disasters like the London and Madrid bombings, they're
also taking a closer look at groups and institutions that promote
radicalization. About 100 of G

[osint] Checkpoints Are Thought to Have Hastened 2 Egypt Blasts

[Bruce Tefft]

 

Checkpoints Are Thought to Have Hastened 2 Egypt Blasts


July 26, 2005
Checkpoints Are Thought to Have Hastened 2 Egypt Blasts By MARK LANDLER and
GREG MYRE SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt, July 25 - Egyptian officials, giving their
first detailed account of a deadly terrorist strike at this Red Sea resort,
said Monday that all three explosions were suicide bombings and suggested
that police checkpoints may have forced two of the bombers to set off their
explosives early, before reaching targets packed with Western tourists.

As a result, most of the victims of the bombings on Saturday were Egyptians.
Of the 64 people who were killed, and at least 44 were from Egypt, said the
governor of southern Sinai, Mustafa Afifi. 

As many as 17 foreigners were killed, most of them Europeans. One American
was among the dead, according to the United States Embassy in Egypt, and
news reports identified her as Kristina Miller, 27, of Las Vegas, who was
vacationing here with her British boyfriend. The nationalities of three of
the dead have not been determined, though they are believed to be Egyptian,
the governor said. "What's obvious is that they wanted to attack tourism,"
Mr. Afifi said at a news conference here.

A senior security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of
policy restrictions, said the police believed that the bombers drove to
Sharm el Sheik on remote mountain roads in two Isuzu pickup trucks. The main
coastal roads in and out of Sharm el Sheik have many police checkpoints.

"The preparation and execution were local," the security official said. "But
perhaps the planning had foreign elements."

The growing evidence that the bombings were aimed primarily at foreign
visitors complicates the task of Egyptian officials, who worry about damage
to the country's thriving tourist trade. A machine-gun attack on European
tourists in 1997 at Luxor, on the Nile River, killed 62 people and scared
away visitors for several years.

"This is international terrorism that has no religion, ethnicity or values,"
Mr. Afifi said. "They are trying to kill innocent people and ruin the
livelihoods of the people here."

As the Egyptians broadened their search, the police circulated photographs
at the Sharm el Sheik airport and elsewhere of five Pakistani men who
arrived in Cairo about a month ago and disappeared a few days later.

The police want to question the men, though Egyptian security officials,
including the security official in Sharm el Sheik, emphasized that there was
no evidence that the men had come here from Cairo or that they were linked
to the bombings.

While the three bombings appear to have been well planned, only one seems to
have hit its target.

The police contend that the first bombing, in which a small pickup truck
exploded in the middle of a wide street outside the Old Market, was actually
intended for a nearby hotel filled with European guests.

Three to five minutes later, a second bomber crashed a similar pickup truck
into the lobby of his intended target, the Ghazala Gardens hotel, and
detonated his explosives, destroying much of the front of the building,
which was fully booked, mostly with Europeans.

The last of the three explosions, about three minutes after the second
blast, was detonated by a bomber on foot in a parking lot, and killed
relatively few people. But less than 50 yards away is a pedestrian promenade
lined with bars and restaurants. It was teeming with Westerners when the
blast occurred around 1 a.m., because tourists come out late after the
intense heat of the day lessens.

The security official investigating the case said one person carried out
each bombing, and he expressed confidence that all three bombers had been
killed. He also said he thought they were Egyptian. Other officials and some
witnesses have previously said they thought that one or more of the bombers
may have escaped. The investigator said it was possible that the three
unidentified bodies could be those of the bombers.

In the case of the bombing at the market, the police had established a
checkpoint at the end of a one-way street, effectively blocking the bomber's
path to the nearby Iberotel hotel, which they said they believed had been
his destination. These so-called ambush checkpoints are a permanent part of
Sharm el Sheik's antiterrorism security.

The Iberotel is similar to the Ghazala Gardens, with a lobby close to the
road, though each hotel has guards and fixed barriers, as is the case with
virtually every hotel in town. The Iberotel and the Ghazala were packed with
Western tourists.

The bomber was driving through the market en route to the hotel and probably
stopped when he saw the police checkpoint, Mr. Afifi said. The police
speculate that the bomb may have been on a timing device, set to explode
when the truck reached the hotel, about 150 yards away.

Bungled or not, the bombing was brutally efficient, killing and wounding
dozens of Egyptians. The explosion blew a huge crater in the road,
inc

[osint] Two Austrian Tourists murdered in The Bahamas

[Bruce Tefft]

 

http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/07/26/murdered.shtml
Tourists murdered in The Bahamas
Bahamas Commissioner of
Police Paul Farquharson
by Norman 'Gus' Thomas
Caribbean Net News Senior Regional Correspondent
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Monday, July 25, 2005

ALICE TOWN, Bahamas: The Caribbean is once again receiving some very
negative publicity following what some locals are calling the "slaughter" of
two Austrian tourists in the quiet community of Bimini in The Bahamas.

Nassau police on Sunday confirmed to Caribbean Net News that the community
is reeling from what seems to have been an execution-style slaying at a
local hotel.

Police said a hotel maid discovered the couple, thirty-four year old Bolza
Berhard and thirty-two-year-old Barbara Refreiin Perfall, at about 12:50 pm
on Saturday in a room at the Anchorage Hotel.

Berhard's body was lying on the floor between two beds, his hands were tied
behind his back, and he appeared to have been shot in the back, the police
press division said.

Perfall, was lying on one of the beds with what appeared to be a number of
serious head wounds.

Bahamian officials told Caribbean Net News that Bimini depends heavily on
tourism, especially from the yachting and boating community.

One Bimini resident called the murders "unsettling," adding that news of
such a happening to tourists will be bad for The Bahamas, especially as
there is still widespread negative talk about the Caribbean in relation to
Natalee Holloway, the eighteen year high-school graduate from Alabama who
went missing in Aruba almost two months ago.

"I hope and pray that the awful murders are just an isolated incident and
there is no revenge killing or serious fallout," he said.

However, emails have already begun to pour into Caribbean Net News from
Europe seeking word on the killings.

Meanwhile, a special team of detectives from Grand Bahama has been sent to
Bimini and up to Monday evening were carrying out investigations into the
"gruesome" murders.

Last month, members of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police
(ACCP), speaking via a press release, said the organisation remains
dedicated to the safety and continued development of the region's tourism
product, its people and all who visit the Caribbean.

"Despite the number of very high profile events that have garnered a great
deal of publicity, in most of our jurisdictions, crimes against visitors are
at an all time low despite rising numbers of visitors," the ACCP said.

Bahamas Commissioner of Police, Paul Farquharson, is a member of the ACCP.

The Commissioners are encouraging visitors to pay close attention to their
surroundings, ensure the safety of valuables and avoid, as much as possible,
the opening of hotel room doors to strangers.

The ACCP also noted that the region has laboured long and hard to develop
its image as one of the safest places in the world and pledged to use every
available resource to protect the people of the Caribbean, its borders and
visitors.

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[osint] Australia's Muslims Urged To Condemn Extremism

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Interesting that they would need to be "urged"...of course they will, for
propaganda and PR reasons.

 -Bruce

Australia's Muslims Urged To Condemn Extremism 

By Phil Mercer
VOA NEWS
Sydney
26 July 2005

Australia's Islamic leaders are being urged to denounce terrorism. Senior
Islamic figures, fearing a backlash following the recent bombings in London
and Egypt, have sent a letter to 200 clerics and community leaders, advising
them to condemn extremist attacks. 

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, the country's main Muslim
organization, has written to clerics around the country asking them to do
all they can to help fight extremism. The letter urges Islamic leaders to
acknowledge that radical Muslim elements exist within Australia, and that
action is needed.

Preachers are being advised to inform young Muslims that their religion
condemns both violence and terrorism.

The letter is aimed at clerics like Sheihk Mohammed Omran, who once claimed
that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was "a good man," and insisted that the
9/11 attacks in the United States were orchestrated by the U.S. government.

Sheihk Omran, who was recently criticized by Prime Minister John Howard, has
since retracted those remarks, and now condemns Osama bin Laden. "I am
talking of Osama bin Laden, the man that did September the 11th, the man
behind so many atrocities or bad actions or horrible actions," he said. "Of
course, I won't support one percent a man [that] did something like that."

The letter was written in response to mounting anger within the broader
Australian community, which is fearful of a London-style outrage.

Callers to talk radio programs have spoken of deporting Muslims from
Australia and of closing down mosques.

Prime Minister Howard has joined the debate, urging Muslim leaders in the
country to make it their "absolute responsibility" not to sow the seeds of
extremism. 

It is estimated that there are 300,000 Muslims in Australia - around 1.5
percent of the total population. This group has been under intense scrutiny
by the authorities since the attacks in the United States in September 2001,
and the bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali a year later that killed
202 people.

The government in Canberra is considering introducing tougher anti-terror
laws in the wake of the London bombings. New measures could include
stripping people of citizenship for inciting terrorism, installing more
surveillance cameras in public places and bag searches for commuters.

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[osint] Singapore Citizens Concerned About Terrorism

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8233
 
 

Singapore Citizens Concerned About Terrorism 

    



(Angus Reid Global Scan) - Many adults in Singapore are worried about the
possibility of an attack, according to a poll by the Feedback Unit. 73 per
cent of respondents think terrorism poses a threat to their country, a six
per cent increase since 2003.

Singapore has opened its ports to U.S. ships since the start of the war on
terrorism in October 2001. The country also provided police trainers and
cargo equipment to the United States-led coalition effort in Iraq.

The Jemaah Islamiya (JI) militant group has been blamed for a series of
terrorist attacks, including the October 2002 bombing in Bali that killed
202 people. The network-which has been linked to al-Qaeda-intends to create
an Islamic state comprising Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the
southern Philippines and southern Thailand.

On Jul. 20, Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong urged moderate
Muslims to condemn "extremist ideologies," adding, "We cannot defeat
terrorism through military operations alone."

On Jul. 23, at least 88 people were killed and 120 were wounded in a series
of coordinated bombings in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik. Egypt is
scheduled to hold an unprecedented multi-candidate presidential election on
Sept. 7.

Polling Data

Do you think terrorism poses a threat to Singapore?

 
Jul. 2005

Jan. 2003


Yes

73%

67%


No

27%

33%

Source: Feedback Unit
Methodology: Face-to-face interviews to 519 Singaporean citizens, conducted
in July 2005. No margin of error was provided.



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[osint] Police Van Blown Up in Dagestan; bomb defused near Makhachkala

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Police Van Blown Up in Dagestan 

By VOA News
26 July 2005

Russian authorities say a police van has been blown up in the southern
republic of Dagestan, wounding six officers.

The explosion occurred early Tuesday in a town
(Khasavyurt) west of the regional capital, Makhachkala. Two of the wounded
policemen are in critical condition.

In a separate development, authorities Tuesday also defused a bomb planted
along a highway west of Makhachkala. 

There has been no claim of responsibility for either incident. Both Islamic
militants and criminal gangs are known to operate in the republic.

A new Russian study found violence has more than doubled in Dagestan in the
last year.

Some information for this report provided by AP.

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[osint] RE: Four cases of smallpox in Brazil CORRECTION!

[Bruce Tefft]

 

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From: 
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Subject: re: Four cases of smallpox in Brazil


http://www.terroristwarning.com

CORRECTION / Update:  The 'smallpox' news item below appears to be the
result of improper translation on the part of the news organization
publishing the story.  The original story was in Portuguese and the correct
translation would have referred to a Measles outbreak not a Smallpox
outbreak. The original and correct news item can be found here:

http://internacional.radiobras.gov.br/espanhol/materia_i_2004.php?materia=23
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[osint] NO WALL AGAINST ISLAMIC WORLD

[Bruce Tefft]

He's wrong, of course.  Wonder when he last asked a Muslim (who replied
truthfully) what the objective of Islam is?  All Muslims wish to subject the
world to the dominion of Islam.  Muslims will only succeed if the whole of
the western world does not recognize this.
 
Bruce
 
 
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200507261115-1033-RT1-CRO-0-NF51
 &page
 
  
TERRORISM: FINI, NO WALL AGAINST ISLAMIC WORLD
(AGI) - Marina di Pietrasanta (Lucca), July 26 - "It is essential that we
avoid constructing a wall between ourselves and the Islamic world, and this
includes our attitudes towards immigration. Raising a wall means playing
into Al Zarkawi and Bin Laden's hands", said cabinet vice president
Gianfranco Fini. "A closed Europe is what the terrorists want. If we
establish the idea that where there is a Muslim there is a terrorist, they
will win, those who want to fight civility will win. The insane Islamic
terrorist plan is to subject the community to the dominion of the Muslim
world monarchy , an objective as crazy as it is unattainable. They could
only succeed if the whole of the western world decides to consider all
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[osint] The vital clue? Food container used for abortive London bombs may hold key to attacks

[Bruce Tefft]

 

The vital clue? Food container used for abortive London bombs may hold key
to attacks 


By Jason Bennetto, Cahal Milmo and Kim Sengupta 


Published: 26 July 2005 


The Independent


Vital evidence in the hunt for the four failed suicide bombers was revealed
yesterday after police named two of the terrorists. 

Details of an unusual plastic container used to hold the home-made bombs in
last Thursday's attacks on three Tube trains and a bus in London were
released. Only 100 stores in Britain sell the Indian-made container, say
police.

The hunt for the bombers became even more urgent with the disclosure that
there is growing evidence of a fifth terrorist who dumped his bomb and fled.

One of the two men named as a potential suicide bomber was Muktar Said
Ibrahim, 27, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, who is accused of trying to
blow up a No 26 bus in Hackney Road, east London, on Thursday.

Police raided a flat in north London yesterday where Ibrahim is thought to
have lived. One neighbour said she had seen the suspect and another man
bring large quantities of chemicals into the flat.

Police named the bomber who tried to detonate his device on the Tube at
Warren Street on 21 July as 24-year-old Yasin Hassan Omar. The two men are
thought to have been in Britain for several years, although they are
believed to be of a Somalian background and their terror cell has links with
east Africa. The Home Office refused to disclose whether they were living in
Britain illegally.

The disclosure of a link to east Africa could have a big impact on the
investigation into the attacks because it is likely to widen the focus of
inquiries beyond Asian communities.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, the head of the Metropolitan
Police's anti-terrorist branch, said the four suspects were all attempting
to be suicide bombers. Video images from the Tube and the bus showed each
man trying to detonate his rucksack or bag bomb. A small puff of smoke was
seen, but none of the devices went off.

Police fear suicide bombers are more likely to strike again and, if
cornered, would be prepared to kill rather than give themselves up.

Police have published the first details of components used to make the
bombs. The explosives were placed inside plastic food storage containers
that were then put in dark coloured rucksacks and sports bags.

The Delta 6250 containers are six-and-a-quarter litres in size and have
white lids.

Scotland Yard appealed for any shopkeeper who had sold five or more of the
containers to any customer to contact police.

Police have found a fifth bomb, which contained the same explosive as the
other four devices, which were similar to the explosive used in the 7 July
suicide attacks that claimed 56 lives. The device was found abandoned in
bushes at Little Wormwood Scrubs in west London on Saturday.

The investigation by the police and MI5 is focusing on the addresses and
associates of the four bombers captured on video.

Detectives were searching a flat at Ladderswood Way, New Southgate, north
London, yesterday, where the suspect bus bomber, Ibrahim, is thought to have
been.

Sam Jones, 33, a resident of the 12-storey housing block said she had seen
Ibrahim carrying a large quantity of an unidentified chemical into the
building with another man three or four weeks ago.

Ms Jones, who lives on the third floor, said: "They were carrying a huge
number of small cardboard boxes into the lift. You could see boxes inside.
There were about 50 in all.

"I asked them what was inside and they said it was chemicals for stripping
wallpaper."

Residents said Ibrahim had been a regular visitor to the block in the past
two years, staying for weeks at a time. They said he shared the flat with
three Somalians, who played football in a nearby park once a week.

The one-bedroom flat at 58 Curtis House was occupied by a man in his 30s of
Somali background who called himself George. He is also known as Ismail. He
was said to have helped Ibrahim carry the cardboard boxes containing the
chemicals.

Ms Jones said: "We all know him as George. He is a friendly, ordinary bloke.
He always talks to the kids around here."

She added that she had last seen George on Friday but she not seen Ibrahim
for about two weeks. Ms Jones said she had seen a third man of Somalian or
Ethiopian appearance, who had been staying at the flat in recent weeks,
clearing up a large amount of white powder that had been spilt in the
hallway outside the flat.

Residents said the first they had known of the link between their flats, a
high-rise block in a 1970s council estate, and the failed bus bomb was when
they received a knock on the door at 1.15am yesterday. Tania Wright, 32, who
lives on the eighth floor, below the raided flat, said: "I opened the door
and there was a policeman in a peaked cap who said words to the effect there
were terrorists in the building and we had to get out as soon as possible.
As we went down the stairs you could see them all g

[osint] Senate, White House disagree over treatment of terrorism suspects

[Bruce Tefft]

 http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3639522
 
  Senate, White House disagree over treatment of terrorism suspects  

WASHINGTON A bill setting Defense Department policy for the next year could
put the Senate on a collision course with the White House.

Senate Republicans have offered amendments to the bill setting rules for the
treatment of terror suspects and delaying military base closings. That's in
spite of the Bush administration's threat to veto the entire measure if any
of those amendments are included. 

Talk of setting ground rules for the treatment and interrogation of
detainees has percolated on Capitol Hill since last year when the Abu Ghraib
prison abuse scandal in Iraq surfaced. Vice President Cheney met with the
detainee provision's sponsors last week to voice the White House's
objections. The Senate could vote on the amendments this week. 

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[osint] US Military country clearance required for travel to Mexico

[Bruce Tefft]

Ladies and Gentlemen, 

 

Since USNORTHCOM issued its travel advisory for Mexico our office has been
overwhelmed with requests for information.  I will try to answer everyone's
questions with this one email.  If you still have questions I have not
covered feel free to call or email.

 

1.  USNORTHCOM approves theater clearance requests.  The US Defense
Representative in a country approves country clearance requests.

 

2.  Leave travel and passes to Mexico require a country clearance approval.
They do NOT require theater clearance approval.

 

3.  The country clearance is passive.  That means you will request country
clearance from USDAO Mexico City, but will not receive an approval message.
USDAO Mexico City only sends messages for disapproved leaves.

 

4.  The country clearance request should be sent by official message
traffic.  That means AMHS, DMS or one of many other systems.  Contact your
comms squadron, message center or local DOIM office for help.  If you are
isolated from a large installation and don't have access to a message center
you can email the request to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .

 

5.  Use the following format for your country clearance request:

 

TO: USDAO MEXICO CITY MX

FROM: YOUR UNIT AND BASE

SUBJ: LEAVE TRAVEL TO MEXICO (TRAVELER'S LAST NAME)

1. Primary Traveler/Sponsor: [Give last name, first name, and middle
initial; military rank or civilian grade; and citizenship and passport
number or SSN.] 

2. Other Travelers (eligible family members): [For each traveler, give last
name, first name, and middle initial; relationship to sponsor, and
citizenship and passport number.]

3. Travel Itinerary (List information requested for each country to be
visited.): 

a. Dates and times of arrival in and departure from country. 

b. Locations to be visited within country. 

c. Mode(s) of travel between locations to be visited. 

4. Purpose of Travel (Be specific: "Leave travel" is not sufficient.):
[Examples of travel purposes: Death or illness in family (state
relationship), marriage, adoption, visit to relative (state relationship),
vacation (provide name of tour group or state "Individual travel."] 

5. List persons to be visited in country: [For each person, give
relationship to primary traveler/sponsor; address, and local telephone
number(s).] 

6. AT/FP Level 1 Training completed on: [Fill in date.] 

7. Additional information required for clearance: must include the address
and phone number of at least one specific person who can serve as a point of
contact in country. 

 

6.  Ask your intel shop or AT officer for a threat update for Mexico and
specifically the area you are visiting.  You can also visit the Embassy
website at http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/regional/regional_1174.html
and http://mexico.usembassy.gov/.

 

7.  Read our travel advisory - it's attached or visit our website at
https://www.noradnorthcom.mil/j3/j34/.  You must be on a .gov or .mil
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[osint] RE: Four cases of smallpox in Brazil (not eradicated?)

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dm79sp.html

World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated
1980

Photo: Poster published by World Health Organization at Geneva, Switzerland,
after declaration of eradiction of smallpox on earth, May 8, 1980. AP/Wide
World Photos

One of the twentieth century's greatest victories in medicine began in 1796.
That year Edward Jenner discovered vaccination. It was known that if a
person had smallpox and survived, he or she would not get the disease again.
Sometimes people tried to innoculate themselves against smallpox by
purposefully contracting a mild case. But Jenner found that if he gave a
person serum from a cow (vacca in Latin) that had cowpox, a virus similar to
smallpox, then that person was protected from smallpox without having to be
exposed to the disease itself. Jenner immediately envisioned the vaccine
erasing smallpox from the earth. But it would take another 150 years.

At the turn of the twentieth century, smallpox was still a dangerous disease
worldwide. In spite of the proven effectiveness of Jenner's vaccine, other
methods of treatment and protection were tried. An especially popular one
was treating the disease with red objects and light. This therapy dated back
to tenth century Japan and was still in use in the United States in the
early twentieth century and in Europe through World War I.

The smallpox vaccine did spread, but slowly. It was initially in short
supply and hard to store, especially in hot climates. In the 1920s, French
and Dutch researchers developed a dried vaccine for use in their colonies.
It was hardier, but the quality was inconsistent. A virulent outbreak of
smallpox in New York City in 1947 surprised everyone and inspired a new
method to improve the vaccine. Freeze-drying was used successfully in 1949
and brought into commercial production by 1954. Freeze-dried vaccine could
last for months, even without refrigeration in tropical climates.

Some localized areas and even some nations had gotten rid of smallpox
entirely, but a plan for global eradication was slow to take hold. In 1948,
the World Health Organization (WHO) took over the health functions of the
League of Nations, at a time when smallpox was still a threat in at least 90
countries. In 1958, WHO adopted a resolution put forth by the Soviet Union
to attempt global eradication, but nothing much happened. Finally in 1966, a
resolution sponsored by several countries -- including the United States and
Soviet Union -- was adopted, and a specific goal set for wiping out smallpox
within ten years.

There were then 44 countries still reporting the disease. The Smallpox
Eradication Program (SEP) started by tackling some of the poorest countries,
determined to score a psychological victory by showing smallpox could be
eliminated even where health services were scant. This worked, and led to a
major discovery: the disease could be removed without vaccinating every
single person. Improved technology (needles that were easier to clean and
use, for example) also made delivering the vaccine more efficient. Wars and
political uprisings slowed progress, but year after year, new countries
announced they had seen their last case of smallpox.

The last naturally-occurring case of smallpox in the world was contracted in
October, 1977 by a young man in Merka Town, Somalia. He survived, and no new
cases were reported in Somalia or elsewhere. But ironically, in 1978 two
more cases popped up in Birmingham, England, from smallpox virus escaped
from a research lab. One of the patients died. The director of the
laboratory committed suicide. These were smallpox's last victims. In 1979, a
global commission certified that smallpox had been eradicated, and this
certification was officially accepted by the 33rd World Health Assembly in
1980.
 

-Original Message-
From: 
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:11 AM
To: 'Bruce Tefft'
Subject: RE: Four cases of smallpox in Brazil

I thought smallpox was eradicated???  So confused.

-Original Message-
From: Bruce Tefft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 09:46
To: Bruce Tefft
Subject: Four cases of smallpox in Brazil

 

http://internacional.radiobras.gov.br/ingles/materia_i_2004.php?materia=2333
46&q=1&editoria

Health Inspection rules out risk of smallpox epidemic in the country

14:14 


Rosamélia de Abreu
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Brasília - Brazil is not running the risk of a smallpox epidemic, according
to Jarbas Barbosa, secretary of Health Inspection in the Ministry of Health.


===> Four cases were reported recently in the states of ===> Santa Catarina
and São Paulo. According to the secretary, ===> the disease was transmitted
by a Brazilian surfer, who ===> caught smallpox in the Maldive Islands, in
Asia.

Barbosa informed that smallpox vaccine coverage in Brazil is high, which
eliminates the risk of an epidemic. "If we take preventive actions
immediately, such as vaccinating everyone who had contact

[osint] Jihad Travel Guide

[Bruce Tefft]

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7181
 
 Tuesday 26th July 2005 (06h58) : 
Let's Go Terror. Jihad Travel Guide 
   
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/int...
  

Let's Go Terror Jihad Travel Guide Yassin Musharbash July 25, 2005

The terror in Iraq seems to be getting worse by the day. Now, a new guide
has appeared on the Internet advising would-be terrorists on the best way
into the country. It isn't easy, but a disguise of jeans and a Walkman may
be just the ticket.

Warning that entering Iraq is a journey fraught with peril, the author of
the four-page pamphlet tells his readers, "It's a long and difficult route.
It's no bed of roses." But by taking certain precautions, the chances of the
dangerous tour ending in success are tremendous. Best of all, by following
the author's tips, martyrdom, honor and paradise await.

Found recently on the Internet, the brochure is a travel guide for the
jihad, a how-to for the mujahedeen. Entitled "This is the Way to Iraq: To
All Who Want to Join the Mujahedeen in the Land of Two Rivers," the pamphlet
was written by "The Islam Doctor." It's goal: to help would-be terrorists
overcome the difficult task of sneaking into the country. It was posted on a
Web site affiliated with al-Qaida.

At this point, experts and analysts have little reason to dispute its
authenticity, especially since it confirms many of the assumptions about how
foreign terrorists sneak into Iraq. In other words, it is another piece in
the puzzle of the strategy followed by terrorists in their mission to turn
the country into a living hell for the United States military, its allies
and, above all, for Iraqi civilians. Indeed, dozens of the suicide bombers
have been identified as having come from foreign countries -- most of them
from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria -- and the number of foreign
fighters in Iraq may number in the thousands. How they got there, despite
all the attempts to prevent their entry, is at least partially explained by
the new "travel guide."

Secrecy Is Paramount

The introduction, for example, explains that jihad wannabes -- following the
appropriate physical and spiritual preparation, of course -- should turn to
the middlemen who are present "in many Arabic countries" and who have "good
connections to the jihad groups" in Iraq. Who those people are is also
explained: preachers and prayer leaders in radical mosques -- or, in
terrorist-speak, "Muslims who follow the example of our ancestors." The
document, however, urges caution and the utmost secrecy when approaching the
travel agents of terror. But it is also encouraging: "hundreds, even
thousands" have followed this route into Iraq.

Another option for contacting potential go-betweens is the Internet, the
guide explains further. "I impart to thee, brother: many of them can be
found on the Internet!" Generally they aren't the "stars of the forums,"
preferring to stay in the background, because they are being pursued by the
authorities and are very busy, the author continues. For that reason, the
faithful need to be especially careful of impostors who claim to be
collecting money for the jihad. One should only hand over money when
absolute trust has been established.

Only after the soon-to-be-terrorist is in possession of the name and address
of a contact person should the journey begin. And the document is clear
about where to start: Syria. "Enter the country through Turkey," the
recruits are advised -- the need for medical treatment is a possible excuse.
A disguise as a tradesman also works. The author imparts important advice to
ease the border crossing: "bring jeans and a Walkman ... playing whatever
music." In other words, pop instead of prayers -- jazz before jihad jingles.

Go In Groups

It is important to remain inconspicuous, the recruits are told, because the
Syrian border guards are paying closer attention now than ever before to who
travels in and out of the country. For this reason, it's better not to try
traveling on to Iraq on one's own. After all, it is almost exclusively the
lone wolfs that get caught, the document claims, while groups are often
ignored.

>From Syria, the journey leads into Iraq. Intermediaries escort in only
"small groups of fighters" at a time, meaning it could take awhile before
one's turn comes. And once in Iraq, obedience is paramount. "Don't ever say
'I will never carry out a suicide attack' or 'due to special circumstances I
can only undertake this work' ... !" From the get go, recruits must be
prepared for anything.

Most mujahedeens are assimilated by the al-Qaida cells operating in Iraq,
the guide explains further. They have connections to other al-Qaida groups
"in Arab countries and in non-Arab countries abroad." Other groups, however,
expect terrorists to find their own path to the front.

Who Wrote The Guide?

It's unclear who is hiding behind the pseudon

[osint] SAUDI ARABIA: BIN LADEN FAMILY REQUESTS SURNAME CHANGE

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism
 &loid=8.0.190699387&par=0
 
  



SAUDI ARABIA: BIN LADEN FAMILY REQUESTS SURNAME CHANGE

 
  








Riyadh, 26 July (AKI) - The family of Osama bin Laden has asked the Saudi
monarchy for permission to change its surname. The on-line newspaper Arabian
Business reports that "the relatives of the 'sheikh of terror' no longer
want to be recognised as belonging to the bin Laden family and have
therefore asked to change the surname on their passports." The royal family
is thought to have approved the request, according to the newspaper, which
it describes it as "unprecedented". 

The family itself revealed that it had made the request to journalist John
Bradley, who first got to know them while he was editor of the English
language Saudi newspaper Arab News and bin Laden's nephews told him how they
had left the United States immediately after September 11 on a special
flight which took them back to Saudi Arabia.

The large, well-known family, which established the Binladen group, Saudi
Arabia's biggest construction firm, is one of the largest holding companies
in the Arab world. In the past it has won contracts to expand the two holy
mosques at Mecca and Medina, and on several occasions has declared itself
opposed to terrorism, even employing public relations agencies to defend its
reputation and emphasise the distance between them and the al-Qaeda leader.

Osama bin Laden's Saudi citizenship was publically revoked in April 1994.



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[osint] Suicide Bomber Identified in Egypt Attack: Youssef Badran

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Suicide Bomber Identified in Egypt Attack By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press
Writer

6:27 AM PDT, July 26, 2005

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Investigators have identified a suicide bomber in
the weekend attacks that killed scores in this Red Sea resort, saying he was
an Egyptian with Islamic militant ties, security officials said Tuesday as
investigators questioned dozens more people. 

The bomber who was identified carried out the devastating truck bomb attack
on the Ghazala Garden's hotel in Sharm el-Sheik. DNA tests identified him as
Youssef Badran, an Egyptian Sinai resident with ties to Islamic militants,
the officials said on condition of anonymity because the release of the
details had not been authorized. 

Police held members of Badran's family for questioning and were trying to
determine his associates, the officials said. Across Sinai, security forces
took in 70 people for questioning on Tuesday, bringing to 140 the number
held since the early Saturday blasts. 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top12jul26,0,2664402,pri
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[osint] Algerian terrorist Ressam offers no more help, faces stiffer sentence

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 

Algerian terrorist Ressam offers no more help, faces stiffer sentence 

By Hal Bernton
Seattle Times Monday, July 25, 2005 - 12:00 AM

 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002401797_webressam25.html

Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian who plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport in
December 1999, will offer no further assistance to U.S. Justice Department
officials prosecuting terrorism cases, according to a filing today by
Ressam's attorneys. 

Ressam is scheduled to appear Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle at
a sentencing hearing before U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour. 

Ressam "fully recognizes" that his decision not to cooperate will result in
a longer sentence, according to the filing 

Ressam was caught by U.S. Customs officials at Port Angeles as he tried to
enter the U.S. with a car filled with bomb-making materials. He was
convicted in April 2001 for his failed attempt to set off a bomb at Los
Angeles International Airport. His sentencing, however, was delayed as he
aided U.S. law enforcement officials in their investigations of the al Qaida
network. 

Ressam eventually wearied of the interrogations. And, by the time of the
sentencing hearing in April, he had stopped cooperating with law enforcement
officials even as they sought his assistance in pending cases.. 

At that April hearing, prosecutors proposed a 35-year sentence for Ressam's
conviction. Ressam's defense attorneys proposed a 12 ½ year sentence, citing
Ressam's early cooperation with authorities. 

The hearing ended as Coughenour asked Ressam to consider resuming
cooperation with law enforcement officials, and indicated that assistance
would likely earn a lighter sentence. 

At the hearing, Ressam indicated he would think about the judge's offer. But
today's court filing indicates Ressam is ready to be sentenced as the
hearing resumes on Wednesday. 

"He is now at a point where he feels he can do no more," according to the
filing by Ressam's attorneys. 

"Mr. Ressam knows what he did was wrong and hopes the court accepts his
statement that he is truly sorry." 

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[osint] Four cases of smallpox in Brazil

[Bruce Tefft]

 

http://internacional.radiobras.gov.br/ingles/materia_i_2004.php?materia=2333
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Health Inspection rules out risk of smallpox epidemic in the country

14:14 


Rosamélia de Abreu
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Brasília - Brazil is not running the risk of a smallpox epidemic, according
to Jarbas Barbosa, secretary of Health Inspection in the Ministry of Health.


===> Four cases were reported recently in the states of ===> Santa Catarina
and São Paulo. According to the secretary, ===> the disease was transmitted
by a Brazilian surfer, who ===> caught smallpox in the Maldive Islands, in
Asia.

Barbosa informed that smallpox vaccine coverage in Brazil is high, which
eliminates the risk of an epidemic. "If we take preventive actions
immediately, such as vaccinating everyone who had contact with the surfer,
there is no risk of an epidemic. We have good vaccine coverage in Brazil,
and every five years we vaccinate all children five years old or under," he
affirms.

Barbosa guaranteed that the smallpox vaccine is effective and secure and is
provided free to the population at health posts. 

In 1997 Brazil suffered a smallpox epidemic involving over 60 thousand cases
and 53 deaths. Health officials took four months to detect the disease,
which was introduced by Italian tourists, and a year and a half to control
the epidemic, the secretary of Health Inspection informs. Since 2000 there
have been no cases of transmission in Brazilian territory, but, since
smallpox epidemics still exist in every continent except the Americas, it is
important to continue surveillance and vaccination campaigns, since there is
always the possibility of a foreign tourist or immigrant arriving in the
country with the infection.

Translation: David Silberstein

25/07/2005
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[osint] Brazilian priest murdered in Rio

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 

Brazilian priest murdered in Rio 

BBC

July 26, 2005

Map of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

A Brazilian priest who campaigned for the families of 29 people allegedly
killed by rogue police officers has been shot dead. 

Paulo Henrique Machado, 35, was shot at least five times while in his car in
the Nova Iguacu area of Rio de Janeiro. 

He headed a support group for victims of the massacre in March - which led
to charges for eight police officers. 

The 29 men, women and children were killed when gunmen drove through the
city's poor suburbs, firing at random. 

Police are investigating whether Machado's death was linked to the massacre.


"The shots came from inside the car, so it was somebody riding with him,"
said Eleonora Massot, spokeswoman for the security affairs secretariat of
Rio de Janeiro. 

The Nova Iguacu massacre began when gunmen opened fire on a crowd at a bar
killing 17, before going on to nearby Queimados where they killed another 12
people in two separate shootings. 

Human rights groups compared the shootings to attacks by death squads, which
are said to operate in many areas of Brazil. 

 



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[osint] Insurgents joining Iraqi police

[Bruce Tefft]

 

 

Insurgents joining Iraqi police

BBC

July 26, 2005

Iraqi police commandos

There are serious questions about the effectiveness of the forces

Iraq's police force is recruiting insurgents and former criminals to its
ranks, according to a report released by the US defence department. 

It blames poor vetting procedures and recommends that the quality of records
at Iraq's interior ministry be checked. 

US-run training programmes, in which more than 60,000 Iraqi recruits have
taken part, are only a qualified success, the Pentagon report says. 

An earlier report found only 50% of battalions able to combat insurgents. 

The formation of an effective police force is a key element of attempts to
combat the insurgency in Iraq, in which hundreds of police officers and
would-be recruits have been killed. 

'Infiltration' 

The report praises the work of the police during January's election, and
says police officers are increasingly visible on the streets. 

But it says many new recruits are illiterate, have criminal records or are
physically disabled. 

"Inducting criminals into the [Iraqi police] is a continual concern," the
report says, quoted by AP news agency. 

"Even more troubling is infiltration by intending terrorists or insurgents.
There is sufficient evidence to conclude that such persons indeed are among
the ranks of the [police]." 

The report adds that coalition personnel are ineffective as recruiters, and
focus on quantity rather than quality. 

"There is a perception that training programmes have produced 'cannon
fodder' - numbers of nominal policemen incapable of defending themselves,
let alone the Iraqi public," it says. 

Current plans are for a 135,000-strong force. 

US-led forces are expected to stay in the country until Iraqi security
forces are able to withstand the insurgent on their own. 

 



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[osint] Raid Targets Islamic Charity in Falls Church

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Not a "charity" but a terrorist front organization.
 
Bruce
 

Raid Targets Islamic Charity in Falls Church


By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 26, 2005; B05

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/25/AR2005072501
632.html



FBI and Homeland Security agents raided the Northern Virginia office of a
Saudi-based charity that has been under scrutiny for possible terrorist ties
and detained one of its employees on immigration charges, officials said
yesterday.

The Muslim World League office in Falls Church had also been searched in
2002 in a dramatic series of raids of Muslim organizations in Northern
Virginia. The charity has not been charged.

Abdullah Alnoshan, 44, a Saudi citizen who worked at the charity, was
arrested at 6 a.m. Friday at his house in Alexandria, according to officials
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Department of Homeland
Security.

Agents working through a joint terrorism task force searched his home and
then his office at 360 S. Washington St. in Falls Church, officials said.
They removed computers, photographs and immigration documents, said Allan
Doody, special agent in charge of the ICE office.

Alnoshan was charged with immigration fraud. According to an affidavit in
U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Alnoshan had been sponsored by the Muslim
World League for a work visa to do public relations and religious work.
Instead, he served as director of the charity, the document said.

Also charged in the case was Khalid Fadlalla, a Sudanese citizen who works
at the Muslim World League office in New York. Fadlalla, who also was
arrested Friday, had signed the forms petitioning for a work visa for his
Saudi colleague, according to court documents and officials.

Ashraf Nubani, an attorney involved in the case, said Alnoshan plans to
plead not guilty.

In recent years, U.S. officials have filed immigration charges against
hundreds of people whose names have emerged in the course of terrorism
investigations.

U.S. agencies have been investigating the Muslim World League for years
because of suspicions that it knowingly or unknowingly provided funds to
Osama bin Laden. A senior Treasury Department official, Stuart Levey, told a
Senate hearing on terror financing this month that the Muslim World League
and a few other Saudi charities "continue to cause us concern."

The Muslim World League has strongly denied providing any support to
terrorism.

Staff writer Jerry Markon contributed to this report



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[osint] UK victim of Egypt attack named

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 

UK victim of Egypt attack named 

BBC

July 26, 2005

Keri Davies, Kristina Miller

Mr Davies and Ms Miller were hoping to start a new life in Australia

A Briton who died in the bombing at the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh
has been named by his family as Keri Davies, 29, from Fareham, Hampshire. 

Mr Davies' mother said the Foreign Office had confirmed his death. Concerns
are also growing for his American partner, Kristina Miller, 26. 

Hospital officials have said the death toll from the attacks could reach 88.


Relatives of missing British tourists have begun arriving in the resort as
they await news of their loved ones. 

UK officials have said 10 more Britons are missing and "of particular
concern", but are not "presumed dead". 

Earlier, a hospital manager in the Red Sea resort had said two Britons died
in Saturday's attacks. 

'Glimmer of hope' 

Among the missing are Alan and Mandy Bentley, from Grantham, Lincolnshire,
as well as their son David and his friend who they were on holiday with. 

Mr Bentley's sister-in-law, Claire, said: "It's an absolute nightmare for
us. We just don't know what to do. 

"We're just living in hope that somebody might have seen them, or they might
have spoken to somebody, they might, they may have gone on a trip anywhere. 

"We're just hoping and just holding on to that, a glimmer of hope". 

The British ambassador to Egypt, Sir Derek Plumbly, said the families of
most of the missing were in touch with the embassy and several had flown to
the resort. 


Destroyed building in Sharm al-Sheikh

Witnesses described mass hysteria breaking out

Sir Derek, who is working with a 40-strong team to try to establish how many
Britons died in the blasts, said: "We have been working through a list of
people who we have been told by tour companies or families that they have
been out of touch or unaccounted for or whatever." 

Among the missing are British couple Jeremy Lakin, 28, and Annalie Vickers,
31, who had been staying at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. 

  Click here to see a map
of the attacks

The couple's parents, said to be "terribly distressed", flew out to the
resort late on Sunday to search for their children. 

Mr Lakin, originally from Nottingham, and Ms Vickers, from Northampton, had
been out on the last evening of their week-long holiday when the bombers
struck. 

Another two Britons, who were staying at the Ghazala Gardens hotel, have not
been seen since it was devastated by one of the bombs. 


Jeremy Lakin

Jeremy Lakin's parents have flown out to search for him

Lesley Ayers, 50, and her mother Valerie Bracci, 70, both from Essex, have
not been in touch with family since the bombings, and did not turn up for
their flight home on Sunday. 

Mrs Ayers' daughter Elizabeth Thein said: "I have been trying my mum's
mobile phone constantly, but it just keeps going through to voice mail. 

"We are so worried about them both and just need to know what has happened
to them." 

Mrs Bracci's sons have flown over to Egypt to help in the search for them. 

'Tremendous explosion' 

Eight Britons were wounded in the attacks, including a girl aged 14 and a
30-year-old man, who were both critically injured. 

A seriously injured 16-year-old girl has been flown to the UK by air
ambulance from Cairo. 

A man in his 20s remains in a Cairo hospital with serious injuries. 

On Monday, the Lloyd family, who were staying at the hotel, issued a
statement through the Foreign Office, saying: "As a result of one explosion,
both our daughters have been hospitalised. 

"One is receiving treatment in the UK; the other will be well enough to
return to the UK in the next few days." 

One injured UK tourist left a hospital in Sharm al-Sheikh on Sunday, leaving
three others still there. 

Kristina Miller's father Tony travelled to Egypt after failing to hear from
his daughter following the blasts. 

He told the Associated Press news agency embassy officials in Cairo had
confirmed she had died. 

Miss Miller and Mr Davies, who were staying at the Ghazala Gardens hotel,
were taking a holiday before starting a new life together in Australia. 

Meanwhile, British tourists have continued to speak about the horror of the
attacks. 

Gary Macleod told the BBC how he and his partner Gillian were woken by a
"tremendous explosion" when the car bomb went off at the Ghazala Gardens,
about half a mile away from where they were staying. 

They ran down to their hotel's courtyard and shortly afterwards heard a
smaller explosion "about 100 yards away". 

"We felt the blast of the smaller bomb and within minutes we were seeing
walking wounded coming back up," he said. 

High terror risk 

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said there was no evidence of a link between
the Egyptian blasts and those in London, but he said he could not rule it
out. 

He refused to advise against travelling to the country, saying: "We are
already warning about a high risk of terrorism in E

[osint] Bombings police find explosives

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Bombings police find explosives 

BBC

July 26, 2005 

Muktar Said Ibrahim (L) and Yasin Hassan Omar

Police are hunting for Muktar Said Ibrahim (L) and Yasin Hassan Omar

Police hunting the men suspected of attacking three Tubes and a bus last
Thursday have found a large amount of "possible" explosives, sources say. 

The find was made at a block of flats in New Southgate, north London, where
bomb suspect Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, had been living since 1999. 

Police stormed the flats on Monday morning, evacuating residents from three
floors of the 12-storey block. 

Five people have so far been arrested in connection with the failed
bombings. 

Police have also seized a car found abandoned in the N2 postcode area of
north London in connection with the 21 July attacks. 

  In detail: Thursday's
attacks

Meanwhile, bomb disposal officers remain at Curtis House, BBC home affairs
correspondent Daniel Sandford says. 

Counter-terrorism sources confirmed that a "large amount" of "possibly"
explosive material had been found there, he said. 

Detectives have no evidence the bombing suspects have left the country and
believe they may all be hiding in a safe house in the capital. 

Police have linked Omar to the attack on a Victoria line Tube train between
Warren Street and Oxford Circus on 21 July. 




WHO IS BEING HELD? 

25 July - Second man arrested near Curtis House, north London

24 July - First man arrested near Curtis House

24 July - Man arrested in Tulse Hill, south London

22 July - Two men arrested in Stockwell, south London



  Blair chairs terror
talks

  Residents' shock at flats raid

Enfield Council confirmed he had been a tenant at Curtis House, Ladderswood
Way, and had been receiving £75 a week in housing benefit. 

Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, who police believe tried to blow up the Number 26
bus while it was heading towards Hackney, has also been linked to the same
address. 

Both men have been legally resident in the UK for more than 10 years,
according to the Home Office. 

Two others are being sought in connection with failed bombings - one near
Shepherd's Bush, west London, the other near Oval station, south London. 

There are also concerns that a fifth bomber is on the loose after a device
was found in Little Wormwood Scrubs, west London, on Saturday. 

Addresses searched 

Police have arrested two men near to the New Southgate address - bringing
the number held in connection with the attempted bombings to five. 

None of the five, who are all being held under anti-terror laws, are thought
to be bombing suspects. 


CCTV footage of Oval bombing suspect

Police believe this man tried to bomb a Tube at Oval station

A sixth man arrested as part of the inquiry was not linked with the 21 July
attacks and has been charged with wasting police time. 

Police have searched a number of other addresses across the capital. 

Scotland Yard said the devices that failed to explode on 21 July were packed
into plastic food containers which are manufactured in India and sold in 100
outlets across the UK. 

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke has appealed to shop owners who
may have sold five or more of the six-and-a-quarter litre, Delta family
containers, with a white lid, in recent months to come forward. 


TRACKS OF THE ATTEMPTED BOMBERS 



All journeys started between 12:20 and 12:25. Times approx.

OVAL: Man boards northbound Northern Line train at Stockwell and tries to
set off bomb between Stockwell and Oval, where he leaves the train. He is
chased out of the station at 1235 BST, but escapes towards Brixton. 

HACKNEY: Man, identified by police as Muktar Said Ibrahim - or Muktar
Mohammed Said - also sets off from Stockwell. Boards Number 26 bus at 1253
at Bank. Police believe he was carrying bomb in a grey and black rucksack,
and tried to detonate bomb while on board. Gets off in Hackney Road, near
junction with Colombia Road, at 1306.

WARREN STREET: Man named as Yasin Hassan Omar, boards Tube train at
Stockwell carrying a bomb in a purple rucksack, police say. Later tries to
set off bomb on a northbound Victoria Line train between Oxford Circus and
Warren Street, detectives say. Seen without rucksack at 1240 in Warren
Street Station before running towards exit and vaulting over ticket
barriers. 

SHEPHERD'S BUSH: Man wearing dark blue baseball cap and carrying small
rucksack enters Westbourne Park Tube station and gets a train travelling
towards Shepherd's Bush on Hammersmith & City Line. Tries to set off bomb at
1225 before escaping, probably through window at the end of the carriage,
and running along the tracks. 

 



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[osint] Suspects are hunted; bombers may be dead

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http://www.freep.com/news/nw/bombs-bar126e_20050726.htm
 
  

Suspects are hunted; bombers may be dead 


July 26, 2005

ASSOCIATED PRESS

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt -- Security forces hunted through desert mountains
Monday for militants suspected in last weekend's bombings, and investigators
said attackers may have been killed in the three explosions -- either
accidentally or as suicide bombers.

Police around Sharm el-Sheik, meanwhile, were circulating photographs of
five Pakistanis believed to have come to the area from Cairo this month, at
least two investigators said.

The five were among nine Pakistanis who checked into a hotel in the Cairo
suburb of Maadi on July 7, then disappeared two days later, leaving their
bags behind, security officials said.

Photocopies of their passports taken by the hotel indicated the documents
were fakes. The other four men were later found, the officials said.

Security forces have detained more than 70 people in Sharm el-Sheik and
elsewhere since the attacks, which killed as many as 88 people.

The involvement of Pakistanis would increase suspicions that Osama bin
Laden's Al Qaeda network may have been involved. The Saudi-born bin Laden is
popular among militant Pakistani groups.

Also, one of two groups that claimed responsibility for the attacks warned
in a Web statement posted Monday of a "total war" in Egypt unless "Jews and
Christians leave our country within 60 days." If not, "you will see what
you've never dreamed of," said the statement by the Holy Warriors of Egypt.



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[osint] Martin livin' la vida Islam

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Useful dupe.
 
Bruce
 
 
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050726/ENTERTAIN
MENT/107260047/-1/FOOD
 
 Martin livin' la vida Islam 


Published: Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2005

On his first visit to the Middle East, Ricky Martin declared he will try to
change negative perceptions of Arab youth in the West.

"I promise I will become a spokesperson, if you allow me to, a spokesperson
on your behalf. I will defend you and try to get rid of any stereotypes,"
the 33-year-old singer told youngsters from 16 mainly Arab countries at a
youth conference Monday.

The children, ages 14 to 16, expressed concern about being labeled as
"terrorists" by the West.

"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some
countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not
fair because that is generalizing," said Martin, who was born in Puerto
Rico.

Martin, who is a United Nations Children's Fund goodwill ambassador, said he
wanted to get to know the youth and their cultures better.

He said he planned to do a concert tour of the Mideast and North Africa,
including Jordan and the Palestinian territories, tentatively scheduled for
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[osint] New EU bank rules to cut off terror funds

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http://euobserver.com/?sid=9 
&aid=19642
 
  

New EU bank rules to cut off terror funds

26.07.2005 - 09:52 CET | By Lucia Kubosova 

The European Commission is set to table a proposal that will require banks
to register the name, address and account number of all those making money
transfers in the EU, according to the Financial Times. 

The move - to be announced on Tuesday (26 July) - is aimed at cutting off
terrorist financing.

The new rules will apply to transfers of even the smallest amounts between
the EU and abroad, while a simpler version will be used for financial
operations within the bloc.

If the money senders - individuals or institutions - refuse to provide the
required data, banks will be obliged to reject such transfers, or end
existing links with these customers.

The financial institutions will then be asked to pass on the information
obtained through the new regulation to law enforcement authorities to assist
in cases of prevention, detection or prosecution of money launderers and
terrorist financiers, reports the FT.

London and Paris in joint action
Britain - currently at the helm of the EU's six-month rotating presidency -
pressed for concrete steps to cut off the terrorist funds following the
London attacks on 7 July, which killed 56 people.

The idea has been on a list of the union's anti-terror measures adopted
after the Madrid attacks in March 2004, but has fallen short of becoming a
reality as have most other tasks within the action plan.

EU interior ministers agreed on a revised schedule earlier this month and
the European Commission has warned it will come up with a "name and shame"
list of member states that have not implemented the measures agreed in
Brussels.

Meanwhile, individual countries are also launching joint actions to fight
terrorism.

French prime minister Domonique de Villepin and his British counterpart Tony
Blair agreed yesterday (25 July) on a number of common initiatives to fight
the terror threat.

To prevent new attacks, the authorities in both countries will exchange the
names of persons who have been trying to promote extreme ideas, as well as
information about how to protect vulnerable targets.

Paris and London are also keen to push forward legislation to retain
communications data from telephone calls and e-mails for longer - before it
gets the final go-ahead at the European level.

And finally, they want to work together to prevent and take measures against
the "radicalisation" of their Muslim communities - making up around three
percent of the population in the UK, and eight percent in France.

 
 


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[osint] Al-Qaeda in Iraq to execute kidnapped Algerian diplomats

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http://za.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews
<http://za.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005
-07-26T113046Z_01_BAN641413_RTRIDST_0_OZATP-IRAQ-ALGERIA-QAEDA-20050726.XML>
&storyID=2005-07-26T113046Z_01_BAN641413_RTRIDST_0_OZATP-IRAQ-ALGERIA-QAEDA-
20050726.XML
 
  

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in Iraq said it will kill two Algerian diplomats
it kidnapped in Baghdad last week, according to an Internet statement posted
on Tuesday.

The statement from the group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it would kill
the men because they represented the "apostate Algerian government". Its
authenticity could not be immediately verified.

http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast
<http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=05072
6112703.2z9hqh19.php> &item=050726112703.2z9hqh19.php

 


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Al-Qaeda in Iraq to execute kidnapped Algerian diplomats 

The group of Al-Qaeda frontman in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said in a
statement on an Islamic website Tuesday that it will execute two Algerian
diplomats kidnapped in Iraq.

"The Islamic tribunal of the Organisation of Al-Qaeda in the Land of Two
Rivers has decided to apply the divine verdict on two diplomatic envoys of
the apostate Algerian government, charge d'afffaires Ali Belaroussi and
diplomatic attache Ezzedin Ben Kadi, and kill them," said the statement.

Its authenticity could not be verified.

Armed gunmen seized the two diplomats as they were leaving their embassy in
Baghdad by car last week.



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[osint] Nervous bravado in European cities under Qaeda threat

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http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2

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Nervous bravado in European cities under Qaeda threat
 

Published: Tuesday, 26 July, 2005, 01:24 PM Doha Time   
ROME: In European cities on an Al Qaeda Internet hit list, people are
showing a mixture of resignation, defiance and nerves.
"Sooner or later, it will be our turn," said Italian tourist Iliaria
Rambelli who, like many others in the country, believe Italy, a steadfast US
ally with 3,000 troops in Iraq, could be the next target of a terror attack.
"There was the US, Madrid, London, and yesterday Egypt. We are even more
under threat because our government is close to the Bush administration and
Britain," she said outside a cafe a few streets from the Vatican and St
Peter's Square.
Nearby, a 63-year-old pensioner, Paolo, said that he had told his two
children to ease off using the bus and subway trains. "And when I look at
the basilica of St. Paul's, I always think of the planes from September 11
with a sense of foreboding."
European nations were given a "final warning" to pull their troops out of
Iraq within a month or face more attacks in an Al Qaeda message on the
Internet dated July 16.
"It's a message we are addressing to the crusaders who are still present in
Iraq - Denmark, the Netherlands, Britain, Italy and those other countries
whose troops continue to criss-cross Iraqi territory," it said.
After August 15, "there will be no more messages, just actions that will be
engraved on the heart of Europe", said the statement, the authenticity of
which could not be verified. "These are our last words. The mujahedeen, who
are on the lookout, will have other words to say in your capitals."
In Denmark, a staunch ally of Washington with more than 500 troops in Iraq
as of the end of April, warehouse worker Hastings Smythe was fatalistic.
"I cannot waste my time being scared. Either it happens or it does not,"
said Smythe, one of the few weekend passengers on a Copenhagen subway train.
Despite his cool, Smythe admits he keeps "an eye out for any suspicious
packages and large backpacks because you never know".
"People seem nervous, even if they do not show it."
The Netherlands, which withdrew its active troop contingent from Iraq in
April, was still named in the Al Qaeda message.
"I am not scared. I have to see it to believe it," said tram driver Roland
Paesch in Amsterdam.
Though transport authorities in the Netherlands have given no special
instruction for vigilance, Paesch and his colleagues have been casting a
wary eye since the repeat attacks in London.
"There is nothing we can do, we have to carry on," he said. "Whatever we do,
they (the terrorists) are here, in the city and if they want to do
something..." He gestures skywards without finishing the sentence.
At the central rail station ticket office in Amsterdam, Milou Heintjes is on
the lookout for suspect packages but she "refuses to give in to fear". She
says she does not expect an attack but is "aware that we could be the next
target".
Internet messages signed by Al Qaeda have claimed the blasts on the Red Sea
resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that killed at least 88 people and the two bombing
campaigns in London - one that killed 56 people including the four bombers
on July 7 and another that seemed to go awry wounding no one on July 21. -
AFP 


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[osint] Pope won't call Islam religion of peace

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Well, it is not a religion of peace.  It is an ideology of conquest, war and
death.

Bruce


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45449

Pope won't call Islam religion of peace 'I would not like to use big words
to apply generic labels'
Posted: July 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern C 2005 WorldNetDaily.com 

Pope Benedict XVI yesterday refused to declare Islam "a religion of peace." 

Asked by reporters whether Islam could be considered a religion of peace
shortly before entering a meeting with priests and deacons of Valle d'Aosta
in northwest Italy where he is spending a brief holiday, the pontiff refused
to reply positively. 

"I would not like to use big words to apply generic labels," he replied. "It
certainly contains elements that can favor peace, it also has other
elements: We must always seek the best elements." 

The day before, he asked God to stop the terrorists. 

"Even these days of serenity and repose have been disrupted by the tragic
news of the execrable terrorist attacks which have brought death,
destruction and suffering to various countries such as Egypt, Turkey, Iraq
and Great Britain," he said. "As we entrust to divine goodness the dead and
injured and their loved ones, victims of gestures that offend both God and
man, we call on the Almighty to block the murderous hand of those who,
driven by fanaticism and hatred, committed these acts, and we ask that He
convert their hearts to thoughts of reconciliation and peace." 

He asked Muslims to embrace peace. 

"Renounce the way of violence which causes so much suffering to civilian
populations, and instead to embrace the way of peace," he said in a
statement issued through Vatican Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano,
in response to terrorist attacks at the popular Red Sea resort of Sharm
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[osint] The Madrassa Industry -Ishtiaq Ahmed

[Bruce Tefft]

 
The Madrassa industry —Ishtiaq Ahmed

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_26-7-2005_pg3_2

 The international jihad recruited idealist young Muslim men from all over
the world for the Afghan war. Some of them went to the madrassas. This
industry has now gone bust. Those who needed its products for fighting
Communism are now selling off their shares. The Pakistani investors should
watch out

The bomb blasts of July 7, 2005 have been connected to religious schools
known as madrassas in Pakistan which, according to the British police, three
of the four suicide bombers visited recently. Their families have also
confirmed that the visits did take place. For once the market for conspiracy
theories about a Jewish-Hindu-Christian diabolical plot to defame Islam and
Muslims may have a short life-span, although I have already received a
barrage of emails, denying with amazing bull-headed obstinacy that the
suicide bombers were British Muslims of Pakistani origin. Some totally wacky
theories suggest that the three men of Pakistani-origin worked for the
British intelligence which orchestrated the attacks to create a scare of
Muslim terrorism. 

One of the suicide bombers, Muhammad Siddiq Khan, left behind a 14-month old
daughter and a young wife. There is little doubt in my mind that Siddiq and
his three younger comrades were idealists who had been brainwashed to
believe that their faith and the ummah needed their supreme sacrifice.
Whereas their mentors have yet not been traced and the entire network has
not been uncovered, the fact remains that the jihadi factories (called
madrassas) churning out a nihilistic worldview are still in business in
Pakistan. 

We were told by no less than President Pervez Musharraf in January 2002 when
he first publicly announced his about-turn on jihad that the madrassas had
been doing useful work, providing shelter, food and religious education to
children from poor families who had no means of supporting themselves.
Consequently he did not plan to dismantle them, but that those which
preached extremism and terrorism would be closed down.

On the surface, such a description sounded sympathetic. Of course the
general and his buddies never thought that it is not written in the stars
that millions of Pakistani families should continue to remain poor and
destitute so that they can only turn to the madrassas for help. 

Neither did he mention that until the Afghan jihad was taken up by Pakistan,
there were few madrassas in Pakistan and they took in only as many pupils as
were needed by the mosques. Caring for the poor was not their agenda. The
madrassas corresponded roughly to the number of mosques under the control of
different sub-sects of Deobandis, Barelwis, Ahl-e-Hadith, Shia and so on. In
1956 there were only 244 madrassas in Pakistan. Recent estimates range from
13,000 to 15,000 with an enrolment of 1.5 to two million (unpublished report
by Dr Saleem Ali, Islamic Education and Conflict: Understanding the
Madrassahs of Pakistan). 

The syllabi taught in those traditional madrassas was woefully archaic since
much of it was based on assumptions that the earth was flat and the sun and
moon rotated around it, while the stars were fixed lights in the seven-tier
heaven. The laws and moral values taught also corresponded to a static
worldview that made any notion of progress beyond the severely segregated
societies of the 7th to 12th centuries impossible to grasp, much less
accept. 

But in all honesty such madrassas produced generally decent, hardworking and
frugal prayer leaders and minor and major scholars of Islam. I remember that
the Maulvi Sahib in our immediate Deobandi mosque was a thorough gentleman
and a good human being. The Barelwi maulvi a little further down the road
was also a wonderful man. Their silly rivalries provided much amusement and
both had a sense of humour.

But things were never the same once the Afghan jihad started. The joint
CIA-Saudi initiative resulted in a proliferation of madrassas, regardless of
the genuine need for maulvis. Thanks to the CIA’s 51 million US dollar grant
to the University of Nebraska to produce pictorial textbooks glorifying
jihad, killing, maiming and bombing other human beings was made sufficiently
entertaining. Sadism could now be cultivated as a virtue. That was when
madrassa doors were opened to the mass of the poor. 

The new “education” they received was to hate the Russians, later
generalised to include any non-Muslim. Jews, Hindus and Christians figured
prominently and out of it came the expression of a Yahud-Hunud-Nasara
conspiracy against Islam. The phrase had never existed previously but
because of its Arabic sounds, it went readily to the hearts and minds of the
Islamists. The Buddhists did not fit into the Yahud-Hunud-Nasara formula.
But the Taliban by destroying the Buddha statues at Bamiyan indicated that
even Buddhists were against Islam and therefore their symbolic presence in
Islamic Afghanistan had to b

[osint] Using the system to destroy the system

[Bruce Tefft]

 
  _  

   


Foundation for Defense of Democracies > In the Media > Wanted, But Kept Out
of Reach

Wanted, But Kept Out of Reach

Patricia Hurtado
Newsday
April 24, 2005 

They are alleged to be some of the most dangerous men in the world. Federal
prosecutors charge them with having links to al-Qaida and participating in
or plotting terrorist attacks, from the deadly 1998 bombings of U.S.
embassies in Africa to a foiled scheme to bomb Los Angeles International
Airport during millennium celebrations. 


Yet these nine men have never seen the inside of an American courtroom. All
are in custody in the United Kingdom, some since the late 1990s, and have
fought extradition to the United States in an extended game of
beat-the-clock.

One of the men, Ibrahim Eidarous, may never be prosecuted. Eidarous, who
American officials charge was an aide to Osama bin Laden, was indicted in
New York in connection with the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
He was arrested in Britain in July 1999, and ordered extradited to the U.S.
in December 2001. 

But in July, after a diagnosis of advanced leukemia, he was quietly released
from a prison hospital and sent home. Federal officials in New York declined
comment on Eidarous' case.

Legal experts say these cases underscore the difficulties the U.S. faces in
attempting to swiftly bring to justice terror defendants outside the
country. Some defendants appear to have exploited the British legal system,
filing appeal after appeal. The judicial proceedings and jailings of these
men have cost millions.

One U.S. federal law enforcement official told a British newspaper that
terrorists are delighted with their U.K. hosts.

"They can't believe how easy it is to get the English legal system to tie
itself in knots for the benefit of the brothers engaged in violent jihad,"
the American official told the Sunday Telegraph.

Nearly four years have elapsed since Eidarous' co-defendants - Adel Abdel
Bary and Khalid al-Fawwaz - also were ordered extradited, and there is no
sign they will be sent to the U.S. any time soon. The decision on their
extradition rests with British Home Secretary Charles Clarke. He has
steadfastly declined comment.

Clarke also holds the key to determining extradition of Abu Doha, an
Algerian indicted in connection with the millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles
International Airport. Doha was arrested in February 2001 and is in the
high-security Belmarsh prison in south London.

And the numbers of those in the United Kingdom being sought by U.S.
prosecutors continues to grow. Last month, prosecutors in New York indicted
three more men linked to al-Qaida, alleging they targeted financial
institutions in New York and Washington, D.C., The three already are under
terror indictments in the U.K. British officials said last week they would
not extradite them until after cases there have concluded.

American lawyers say there are other hurdles. Before agreeing to an
extradition, Britain must be satisfied, under European human rights laws,
that the suspect will not face capital punishment, be detained without
trial, be prosecuted by a military tribunal or be transferred to another
country and tortured.

Lawyers say U.S. officials may not want to make such promises, especially if
other evidence could be developed later that the defendant committed capital
crimes.

"The point is we're coming at the equation from a different place than they
are," said Andrew McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and the first World Trade Center bombing case.

"Some of the things we think we can do because we're allowed to under
American law, they have a problem with," he said.

McCarthy, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,
a Washington-based nonprofit that researches and analyzes terrorism, noted
that no prosecutor views extradition as a swift process because of
differences between British and American criminal law.

"British extradition is just painful," he said.

A new extradition treaty between the United States and United Kingdom, which
took effect in January 2004, was designed to speed up the process. It
removed the British home secretary's discretion to block an extradition
request on the grounds that it would be "wrong, unjust or oppressive."

Where a country previously had to produce "prima facie" evidence that there
is a criminal case before a citizen could be extradited from the United
Kingdom, the new law spares the U.S. of that requirement. Now the U.S.
simply has to provide "information" about the extradition request, and a
judge in the U.K. must be satisfied that the charges fall into a category of
an extraditable offense.

In the wake of these changes, U.S. Attorney David Kelley of the Southern
District of New York said recently that his office has withdrawn a prior
extradition request for Yassir al-Sirri, an alleged member of the
Egypt-based

[osint] British politicians debate terror tactics

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Is the Police Commissioner the British Yogi Berra?  He has a propensity for
contradicting himself:
 
The police commissioner has indicated he believed al-Qaida-linked terrorists
were involved in both the July 7 and July 21 attacks. Asked if the attacks
were connected, he said: "We have no proof that they are linked, but clearly
there is a pattern here."
 
A patter is proof of linkage.
 
-Bruce
 
 
 


British politicians debate terror tactics 

By ED JOHNSON 
Associated Press Writer

Arizona Republic

July 26, 2005

 

 

LONDON (AP) -- British politicians Tuesday warned that giving police the
power to hold terror suspects for three months without charge could erode
civil liberties but said they were united in their determination to fight
terrorism.

Prime Minister Tony Blair met with opposition party leaders to discuss new
anti-terror legislation aimed at preventing a repeat of July 7 bombings that
killed 52 people.

Meanwhile, police questioned five suspects arrested in connection with the
July 21 failed attacks on the London transit system. They have released the
names of two of the four suspected bombers, who are being sought, and
provided details on how they fled three subway trains and a bus when their
devices failed to fully detonate.

Those bombs were stored in clear plastic food containers and put into
dark-colored bags or backpacks. Peter Clarke, head of the Metropolitan
Police anti-terrorist squad, said those four bombs were similar to another
found abandoned in a park on Saturday, raising fears a fifth bomber was on
the loose.

Opposition leaders did not think they would have to reconvene Parliament in
summer, instead of October as planned, to discuss new terrorism legislation.

Under discussion are proposals to outlaw "indirect incitement" of terrorism,
including praising those who carry out attacks, to counter extremist
Islamist clerics accused of radicalizing disaffected Muslim youth in
Britain.

The law also would make it illegal to receive training in terrorist
techniques in Britain or abroad, or to plan an attack and activities such as
acquiring bomb-making instructions on the Internet.

"There's a great desire at a time when the country faces such great danger
to work together. We are all in this together and we all believe it is very
important to show that the country is united in its response to the danger
we face," Conservative leader Michael Howard said. "We hope that it will be
possible to reach agreement on further measures that will enable us to deal
with this threat more effectively."

The opposition leaders, however, had reservations about a police proposal to
extend the time that a terror suspect can be held without charge from two
weeks to three months.

"We see very considerable difficulties in that. That is a long time to hold
someone without charge, and possibly just release them after that," Howard
said.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy, agreed.

"We have to make sure that we go about this in a measured way and that we
don't surrender basic civil liberties," Kennedy said. "We have reservations
about a possible extension on holding people for questioning."

Clarke identified two of the suspects as Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, and Muktar
Said Ibrahim, 27, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, but did not give their
nationalities.

He also released new closed-circuit images of the four suspects and gave
details of their movements, saying one bolted from a subway station pursued
by passengers, while another jumped through a subway window and fled down
the tracks.

Armed officers on Monday raided a London apartment that Said - suspected of
trying to bomb a bus in east London on Thursday - was believed to have
visited recently. Forensic officers in white overalls searched the apartment
in Curtis House, a concrete high-rise in the city's northern suburbs.

Metropolitan Police also said Monday they had arrested two people on
suspicion of terrorism in the area but not at the raided address. Three
other suspects are already being questioned at a high-security London police
station "on suspicion of the commission, instigation or preparation of acts
of terrorism" in connection with the July 21 attacks.

On Sunday, police destroyed a package found in bushes in a west London park
not far from the scene of the attempted bombing at Shepherd's Bush
Underground railway station. Clarke said forensic examination had shown
"clear similarities" between the device and the bombs found on three subway
trains and a bus last Thursday.

"All five of these bombs had been put into dark-colored bags or rucksacks.
All five were made using the same type of plastic food storage container,"
Clarke said. He appealed for shopkeepers who stocked the 6.25 liter (1.65
gallon) clear plastic containers to contact police if they had sold five or
more of the containers.

They are not indicative of any particular terrorist organization's
techniques, said Brian Jackson, a specialist in terrorist technol